Why Dr. Web "ordered" operators and aggregators?
Yesterday an interesting article was published in which the story with all the noise around SMS fraud is considered in detail. Frankly, even though the article does not state directly, it seems that all the noise - the slender ranks of publications in Vedomosti, Kommersant, RBC-daily and even Moskovsky Komsomolets are nothing but a marketing campaign of one of manufacturers of antivirus software . Here, for example, quote:
Antivirus companies can also be understood. The sharp increase in revenues attracted a large number of skilled intruders to the writing of viruses. It is clear: the creation of a botnet, its management, the sale of its capacities - all this is a long and laborious process, while writing an ransomware virus makes it possible to instantly receive fabulous money even from computers not connected to the network.
To the wave of new viruses, anti-virus companies were not quite ready. In many cases, their systems turned out to be just a useless rumble, clogging up the RAM of computers. And besides opposing the virus makers by writing a new code, there is a very simple way to solve the problem - to eliminate the source of income of the intruders. The easiest way is to block mobile payments: no payments - no ransomware viruses, which means you can again sell your software without fear of complaints from customers. To destroy the market, all you need is to make the operators nervous and quarrel all market participants.
In addition, there is another insider in the article - the manufacturer of antivirus Dr. Web all this time using the noise in the press goes to telecom operators and offers its services. Do not even stop to climb into the Kaspersky glade - MTS. The article says little about this:
The picture is complemented by the information that the same antivirus software manufacturer has recently offered operators to install their software instead of the already working counterpart of competitors. It can be assumed that the income from this transaction will more than pay off all the costs of the marketing campaign, which is played out like notes - on Monday “stuffing”, on Tuesday “fixing”, on Wednesday and Thursday “collecting feedback”, on Friday - planning the next week .
And then, at the end of the curtain, there is the news that Dr. The Web has still delivered its products to one of the operators .
According to respected habrovchane - was the game worth the candle? Maybe not Dr. Has the Web promoted all this on federal television and media?
Antivirus companies can also be understood. The sharp increase in revenues attracted a large number of skilled intruders to the writing of viruses. It is clear: the creation of a botnet, its management, the sale of its capacities - all this is a long and laborious process, while writing an ransomware virus makes it possible to instantly receive fabulous money even from computers not connected to the network.
To the wave of new viruses, anti-virus companies were not quite ready. In many cases, their systems turned out to be just a useless rumble, clogging up the RAM of computers. And besides opposing the virus makers by writing a new code, there is a very simple way to solve the problem - to eliminate the source of income of the intruders. The easiest way is to block mobile payments: no payments - no ransomware viruses, which means you can again sell your software without fear of complaints from customers. To destroy the market, all you need is to make the operators nervous and quarrel all market participants.
In addition, there is another insider in the article - the manufacturer of antivirus Dr. Web all this time using the noise in the press goes to telecom operators and offers its services. Do not even stop to climb into the Kaspersky glade - MTS. The article says little about this:
The picture is complemented by the information that the same antivirus software manufacturer has recently offered operators to install their software instead of the already working counterpart of competitors. It can be assumed that the income from this transaction will more than pay off all the costs of the marketing campaign, which is played out like notes - on Monday “stuffing”, on Tuesday “fixing”, on Wednesday and Thursday “collecting feedback”, on Friday - planning the next week .
And then, at the end of the curtain, there is the news that Dr. The Web has still delivered its products to one of the operators .
According to respected habrovchane - was the game worth the candle? Maybe not Dr. Has the Web promoted all this on federal television and media?
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/83118/
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