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Why State-sponsored Malware is Interesting
Author: Alexander Gostev
Co-author: Vitaly Kamluk
Over the past few years, the cyberspace has turned into a battleground for spooks and security companies. Why is it becoming easier and faster to catch 0-day packed-deeply hidden-stealthy “implants”? Why is it a capital mistake to use the same Trojan to infect both terrorists and Merkel’s aide? What makes these implants so interesting from a researcher’s point of view?
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Alexander Gostev is the chief security expert at Kaspersky Lab. In 1994, he got interested in antivirus technologies when an antivirus program was first set up in a company he worked at that time. Having founded the Antivirus Center of Komi Republic in 1996, he started publishing data on new viruses detected. He also was a coordinator of the project "WildList Russia" launched in 1998. In 2002 he joined Kaspersky Lab as a virus analyst.
Vitaly Kamluk graduated from Belarusian State University, the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics; joined Kaspersky Lab in 2005 as an infrastructure services developer. In 2008, he was promoted to a senior antivirus expert and then to the Director of the EEMEA Research Center in 2009. He specializes in threats focusing on global network infrastructures, malware reverse engineering and cybercrime investigations.
