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Dmitri Alperovitch
1980 • Russian • Businessman
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Showing 40 quotesIt's a great honor to be selected as one of 'Foreign Policy''s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.— Dmitri Alperovitch
Chollima is actually a national animal of North Korea. It's a mythical flying horse.— Dmitri Alperovitch
I think it's safe to say that the Russians are extremely interested in anything that has to do with the U.S. political system. And it's not out of the realm of possibility that they are in many other systems.— Dmitri Alperovitch
AI is going to be extremely beneficial, and already is, to the field of cybersecurity. It's also going to be beneficial to criminals.— Dmitri Alperovitch
Cyber criminals are good... but they cut corners. They don't spend a lot of time tweaking things and making sure that every aspect of the attack is obfuscated.— Dmitri Alperovitch
In Russia, you have political parties engaged in all kinds of nefarious activity. And they may just assume that in America it works the exact same way.— Dmitri Alperovitch
I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they've been compromised and those that don't yet know.— Dmitri Alperovitch
The GRU is used for both tactical intelligence collection in the battlefield in support of Russian military operations and also strategic active measures or psychological warfare overseas.— Dmitri Alperovitch
In the physical world, we would never blame the victim of the assault for that assault taking place, but yet we do so all the time in the cyber world. I think that's completely misguided.— Dmitri Alperovitch
Victims don't want to know they're victims. I guess that's just victim psychology: if you don't know about it, it's not really happening.— Dmitri Alperovitch
It's been really hard to watch the news of this Anonymous and LulzSec stuff because most of what they do - defacing Web sites and running denial-of-service attacks - is not serious. It's really just nuisance.— Dmitri Alperovitch
Fancy Bear actually went after opposition research and, specifically, research related to the Trump candidacy.— Dmitri Alperovitch
With Fancy Bear, we have medium-level confidence it's GRU, which is Russia's military intelligence agency, and with Cozy Bear, we have low-level confidence it's FSB, the Russian federal security service.— Dmitri Alperovitch
Transnational organized cybercriminal groups have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and ordinary citizens.— Dmitri Alperovitch
When I see something like Russian intelligence services interfering with our electoral process, I find that incredibly offensive.— Dmitri Alperovitch