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A black hat loses control

VitalyK

October 22, 2009 | 10:06  GMT

Malware writers today always try to conceal their identities, right? Wrong – even some of today’s profit driven cyber criminals reveal their identities. We are a bit surprised, but here is the story of how a blackhat has revealed his identity and is trying to ‘get compensation’ from Kaspersky for conducting research.

22.10.2009 14:23  |  saso Post Reply

how do you know that "[the real name of suspect]" is really the real name of the suspect and not just one malwriter trying to f**k another malwriter?

22.10.2009 15:44  |  Vitaliy.Kamlyuk Post Reply

We got enough of real evidence that it's him. There are facts that may exists only if there is a connection with the same blackhat person, whose name is quite known. He was officially employed at some company (not naming it for purpose) where he had to use his real name.

22.10.2009 16:10  |  thierry_zoller Post Reply

Dear Vitaly, I respect Kaspersky skill to "track down" " blackhats" - however a simple google search reveals : http://www.peterkleissner.com/?p=175 He has the name even in the domain name itself.

22.10.2009 16:27  |  Vitaliy.Kamlyuk Post Reply

Thank you, Thierry! :-) Obviously, we can't rely on publicly available pages only.