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>In an effort to prove that other companies were ripping off its work, Kaspersky said it ran an experiment: It created 10 harmless files and told VirusTotal that it regarded them as malicious. VirusTotal aggregates information on suspicious files and shares them with security companies.
>Within a week and a half, all 10 files were declared dangerous by as many as 14 security companies that had blindly followed Kaspersky's lead, according to a media presentation given by senior Kaspersky analyst Magnus Kalkuhl in Moscow in January 2010.
>When Kaspersky's complaints did not lead to significant change, the former employees said, it stepped up the sabotage.
hahaha, well played, kaspersky.
assuming the sabotage part is even true, but that seems to be another propaganda lie.
>In its response to written questions from Reuters, Kaspersky denied using this technique. It said it too had been a victim of such an attack in November 2012, when an "unknown third party" manipulated Kaspersky into misclassifying files from Tencent (0700.HK), Mail.ru (MAILRq.L) and the Steam gaming platform as malicious.
seems like the NSA is getting angry. kasperksy confirmed for only NSA-proof snake oil?
anyway, using any form of botnet snake oil is retarded.
this whole kindergarden fight is so incredibly meaningless. companies attacking each other over the proper use of shared intellectual property? lmfao get a life and write some foss like we do, asspies.
btw injecting strings that look like malware into legit files to make AV target them is a confirmed NSA technique. they're doing this to the bitcoin blockchain too in the hope of scaring away normalfags.
this attack comes either from regular malware authors or nsa malware authors who want less people to use AV and who want AV to be even slower at detecting new malware variations.