Russian antivirus vendor fire bombed for research blogs Russian ATM VXers have firebombed the research lab of an anti-virus firm after its researchers refused to retract reverse engineering analysis of their malware. The attack followed email threats by the group calling itself the 'Syndicate' to the Moscow company which sold the Shield antivirus product that prevented the gang's …
"There are professional fire bombers?"
We have them here (the US) too. They're called "arsonists". Their services can be invaluable for speeding a process called "urban renewal", in order to displace the poor, who are often found thickly infesting neighborhoods otherwise perfectly suitable for gentrification.
If I was working for one of these companies, I'd be checking my mail with a Geiger counter or better still scanning + faxing it then shredding the original to maintain an air gap.
Maybe what we need is to add information terrorism (ie achieving political ends through manipulation of the Internet) to the list, so Government level resources can be used to deal with this threat.
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