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  ‘Everyone is attacking everyone’ online says web security expert Kaspersky

  Posted by Nigel on 1 June 2021 at 5:44 pm

  When it comes to the internet, countries are constantly attacking each other, and cybercriminals are in every single nation. That’s according to Eugene Kaspersky, the Russian founder and CEO of IT security company Kaspersky Lab.

  Speaking to Moscow daily Kommersant on Tuesday, Kaspersky explained that not everything should be blamed on ‘Russian hackers’, but they are some of the most skillful cybercriminals.

  “In fact, everyone is attacking everyone,” he said. “The main victims, of course, are developed countries because there is more to steal. But there are cybercriminals everywhere – some places have more, some have less.”

  In particular, Kaspersky noted that there are very few American hackers because of the competence of the FBI. However, other countries, such as China and Russia, have a very developed cybercrime industry.

  “The attacks have a national specialization. For example, Chinese-speaking cybercriminals specialize in botnets,” he explained. “In Latin America, the Spanish-Portuguese-speaking scammers are mostly into finance, credit card and account fraud. And cryptojacking is the specialty of Russian-speaking criminal groups.”

  Cryptojacking is the term for using software to infect computer systems and steal power to make money by mining cryptocurrencies, usually without users’ knowledge.

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