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by ajross 3961 days ago
Yeah, I have to agree, at least as far as the headline. Kaspersky is a serious and respected vendor in the industry and has been for a long time now. Identifying them as a "Russian antivirus firm" in this context sounds a little jingoist to me. (e.g. how often do you hear about "British CPU vendor ARM" or "Abu Dhabian semiconductor giant GlobalFoundries").

That said, the trick is pretty vile. Deliberately polluting public malware databases hurts us all.