abstract:Dmitri Alperovitch is a computer security industry executive. In August 2011, as Vice President of Threat Research at McAfee, he published Operation Shady RAT report on suspected Chinese intrusions into at least 72 organizations, including defense contractors, businesses worldwide, the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee.
In 2011, DmitriAlperovitch, then vice president of Threat Research for McAfee, authored a report about Shady RAT (Remote Access Tool), the malware that had been used by Chinese cybercriminals to exfiltrate data from a broad cross-section of organizations over a 2-5 year period undetected.