A war of words has emerged over McAfee's Shady RAT report, which traced the use of a set of remote access tools to a series of online attacks.
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab, alleged Thursday that McAfee--and in particular, Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee's threat research VP and author of the report--purposefully mischaracterized the seriousness of the threat he found.
"We conducted detailed analysis of the Shady RAT botnet and its related malware, and can conclude that the reality of the matter (especially the technical specifics) differs greatly from the conclusions made by Mr. Alperovitch," said Kaspersky, in hisblog post, titled "Shoddy RAT."
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