A Close Look at Rogue Antivirus Programs
Summary: Cisco Talos' Aziz Douemba presented a talk titled "A Close Look at Rogue Antivirus Programs" at the Hack In Paris conference, held on the grounds of Disneyland Paris. In the same post he notes that authorities in the US and seven other countries seized servers belonging to a hacking group behind a rogue AV campaign that netted over $72 million, and that ChronoPay co-founder Pavel Vrublevsky was arrested on June 23, 2011 and held without bail for allegedly hiring hackers to attack a rival.
What's compelling: A single rogue antivirus campaign pulled in more than $72 million before servers in eight countries were seized, which puts a concrete figure on what fake security software can earn.
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