Europol, Russian cyber police and the FBI were all involved. “Unfortunately, the last case of strong cooperation was in 2015, with the Carbanak case.
While calling for greater international cooperation, he lamented what he said is the opposite trend.
But when it came to "highly professional cybercrime," the "most advanced criminal gangs are all Russian-speaking," he said. Going by what languages his company's analysts picked up in online chatter, he added that "junior- to mid-level" hackers were Chinese-, Spanish-, Portuguese-, Russian-, English- or Turkish-speaking. They hack hospitals and they know they are hacking hospitals. "Many of them are available as mercenaries, and many of them don’t have mental stoppers. They hack computers which manage the physical systems," said Kaspersky. “There are many criminal gangs that are able to develop highly complicated attacks on infrastructure. When it came to "highly professional cybercrime," the "most advanced criminal gangs are all Russian-speaking," Kaspersky said.
Each day there are 300,000 to 400,000 new attacks that we have never seen before.”Įstimating that as many as "half a million" people worldwide might currently be employed in the business of cybercrime - from standalone hackers to armies of professionals for hire by states - the Russian added that attacks were becoming increasingly sophisticated, and ruthless. That means in three days, we collect 1 million. "So now, every day, we collect 300,000 to 400,000 new malicious files. “What we can see is the rise in the number of new malicious code," said Kaspersky, who has opened a "Transparency Center" in Switzerland to allow people to inspect its source code, and stores all European data in Europe. Yet the CEO, whose company has also come under pressure in the European Union, with the Dutch government phasing out use of its products in government networks, said the absence of any action would be inexcusable at a time when the number of attacks being carried out is rapidly rising.
government departments in 2017, acknowledged the challenge of establishing norms without superpowers in a world where multilateral action seemed to be on the wane. Kaspersky, whose company's products were banned from all U.S. “There are many criminal gangs that are able to develop highly complicated attacks on infrastructure" - Eugene Kaspersky But none of the world's cyber powerhouses - the United States, China and Russia - have yet signed on, leading critics to dismiss the call as pleasant rhetoric with little impact. Backed by French President Emmanuel Macron, the initiative currently has the support of 74 countries and 607 companies, up from 60 countries at its launch.
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