Just last week, CDN reported on Kaspersky Lab’s identification of Poseidon Group, an entity that uses malware and extortion-like tactics to coerce victims into contracting it as a security firm, all within the scope of legality.
Kaspersky has since shed more details into the story. In an email exchange, Dmitry Bestuzhev, director of its global research and analysis team in Latin America discussed why the identification of the group matters, and just what the company will do with this knowledge.
CDN: The big piece here is that you guys say this group has been identified. But the question is, so what? What does it mean?
DB: It is very impressive to see how Poseidon Group has been active and actively attacking its victims for at least last 10 years or even more. Financial damage it actually has caused to the victims is really significant.
Identifying the threat actor, putting all that samples into one same shape, actually helps to stop it. At this point there are many things have been done, like sharing news with the media, providing protection for the customers, notifying law enforcement agencies (LEA) and providing security community with free [support]. This is definitely is a big step in a right direction to stop such threat actors like Poseidon. For the full article click here
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