Challenges we face in today

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Challenges we face in todays cyber world

• Eugene Kaspersky
• Head of Anti-Virus Research
• eugene_at_kaspersky.com

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Cybercrime

• Financial fraud
• BankSpy Trojans
• Phishing
• Advertising
• Spam
• AdWare
• Blackmail
• Cyber racket
• Other (dialers etc.)

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Malicious programs damage the economy
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MyDoom Bagle Netsky Sasser
Melissa Love Letter
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Source Computer Economics, 2004
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Criminalization of the Internet(1980 2005)
Source Kaspersky Lab
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Serious virus epidemics
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Source Kaspersky Lab
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Whats the situation today?

• Antivirus companies speed in reaction
• Law enforcement agencies becoming more active
• 1 000 000
• infected computers

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Virus writers current tactics

• Localized virus epidemics 1000 ? 1000 ? 1000
• Using a combination of infection vectors email
  Internet
• Virus writers working together organized crime
  spreading on the Internet
• Virus writers competing with each other
• Virus writers actively working against antivirus
  companies

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Antivirus companies current tactics

• Its a race against time
• Collecting information
• Speed of reaction
• Speed of delivery

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Virus detection
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Tomorrow under threat

• Smartphones, PDAs
• The threats remain the same
• - Data theft
• - Spam
• - DoS attacks
• Critical mass (devices)
• 1 50 (?)
• Smart homes

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What does the future hold?

• Increasing criminalization
• conflict between groups of virus writers and
  hackers
• organized criminal structures
• new technologies applied for increased effect
• 2. Malware going mobile
• viruses for smartphones, PDAs and maybe even
  for smart appliances?

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Why is this happening?

• Operating systems are by nature insecure
• The architecture of the Internet is insecure

What can be done?

• Protect all network elements
• workstations - PDAs
• file servers - laptops
• - mail servers - smartphones

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