{"id":601,"date":"2004-12-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/12\/09\/chinese-cybercops-nailing-virus-writers\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:37:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:37:46","slug":"chinese-cybercops-nailing-virus-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/12\/09\/chinese-cybercops-nailing-virus-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese cybercops &#8216;nailing virus writers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European police aren&#8217;t good enough at fighting virtual crime and should learn from China, says Kaspersky Labs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese antivirus police team will visit the Kaspersky Labs offices in Moscow next week to discuss virus development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China has worked effectively in fighting virus writers,&#8221; said Natalya Kaspersky, chief executive of Kaspersky Labs, on Thursday.  &#8220;They are much more active than anyone. They have special antivirus police that co-operates with industry.  They want to learn more and I think that&#8217;s a good practice.  They regularly hire people and really seem to care about viruses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But she added that hi-tech crime police in other countries are failing to perform as well as the Chinese in hunting virus writers.  &#8220;European police have realised the problem, but don&#8217;t know what to do about it because it&#8217;s a virtual problem.  I think they have a lot of work to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kaspersky said she wanted her company to work more closely with government and police forces around the world.  &#8220;We are very proud that we caught one virus writer,&#8221; she said.  &#8220;But the sentence was something like [a fine of] $300.  It was the first case of its kind.  The problem for us is that in Russian law, you have to prove the damage someone has done.  How could you find a witness to prove someone started an attack?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit is dedicated to fighting organised online crime, but currently individual users may only report isolated virus attacks to their local police station.  Russia&#8217;s counterpart to the NHTCU is its Ministry of Internal Affairs K Department.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, security lobbyist EURIM said it was pushing the government to employ IT professionals as special constables.  The group said that the proposed Serious Organised Crime Agency should be a central point of contact for computer crimes.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/news.zdnet.co.uk\/0,39020330,39180202,00.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/3088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}