Leaked source KAV 8 admitted by a former employee
On January 28, extremely unpleasant news was confirmed : the source codes of the Russian program Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 (KAV 8) leaked into open access. Rumors about this spread a long time . It is known that the source code from November 2010 is walking on hacker forums. Now the files fell into the hands of experts from the site unremote.org, who compiled the program using Visual Studio C ++ 2008, confirmed its authenticity and organized a torrent distribution. The size of the source 1 GB (372 MB in a zip-archive).
The initial investigation revealed that a code leak in early 2008 was made by a former employee of Kaspersky Lab, who had already received a three-year sentence for stealing intellectual property.
For obvious reasons, we do not specify a link to the torrent file that the guys posted on unremote.org, especially since Kaspersky Lab warns : downloading this file is illegal.
From a business point of view, nothing really terrible happened. The company still earns the lion's share of the money not on the sale of licenses, but on paid subscriptions. In other words, the profit is not brought by the program itself, but by the constant updating of the signature database.
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On the other hand, the leak affects the image of a company that, after all, works in the information security sector and must protect its intellectual property.
In addition, attackers will certainly analyze the source code to identify new vulnerabilities, so that Kaspersky Antivirus potentially becomes a less reliable product.
The initial investigation revealed that a code leak in early 2008 was made by a former employee of Kaspersky Lab, who had already received a three-year sentence for stealing intellectual property.
For obvious reasons, we do not specify a link to the torrent file that the guys posted on unremote.org, especially since Kaspersky Lab warns : downloading this file is illegal.
From a business point of view, nothing really terrible happened. The company still earns the lion's share of the money not on the sale of licenses, but on paid subscriptions. In other words, the profit is not brought by the program itself, but by the constant updating of the signature database.
')
On the other hand, the leak affects the image of a company that, after all, works in the information security sector and must protect its intellectual property.
In addition, attackers will certainly analyze the source code to identify new vulnerabilities, so that Kaspersky Antivirus potentially becomes a less reliable product.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/112871/
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