Kaspersky maligns McAfee's "shoddy rat"
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Kaspersky maligns McAfee's "shoddy rat"
Two weeks ago, McAfee made headlines with its description of 'Operation Shady Rat', which involved the hacking of and theft of data from 72 organisations in 14 countries. With characteristic bluntness, Eugene Kaspersky has now responded by claiming that the report was guilty of scaremongering and disseminating deliberately distorted information.
The head of the Russian anti-virus vendor believes that the malware is "a lame piece of homebrew code that could have been written by a beginner." He assesses the market value of the malware as at most a few hundred dollars and notes that much more sophisticated malware is available on the black market for $2,000 to $3,000. According to Kaspersky, malware such as Stuxnet or TDL represents a far greater threat to governments, companies and other organisations. Kaspersky justifies the tone of his accusations by opining that McAfee's analysts could not possibly maintain that they were unaware of all this.
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http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Kaspersky-maligns-McAfee-s-shoddy-rat-1325758.html
http://eugene.kaspersky.com/2011/08/18/shady-rat-shoddy-rat/
Shady RAT: Shoddy RAT