Vladimir joined Kaspersky in 2010 as junior malware analyst. In 2013 he led a financial threat research team, then in 2015 led Non-Intel Research Group which was specializing in mobile and macOS threat research. In 2018 he was promoted to the position of head of the joined team responsible for mobile, Linux, IoT and macOS threat research and software classification. Vladimir graduated from the Moscow Technical University of Communication and Informatics and received an MASc. in 2011.

Alexey joined Kaspersky in 2013 as a malware analyst of Anti-Botnet group and was responsible for analyzing bots functionality and their communication protocols.

In 2016 Alexey became a lead of the new-formed Targeted Attacks Research team and the main aims of the group were to provide reliable detections against all known APTs and to provide expert supporting for our EDR product. Since 2020 Alexey has been working as an expert and his main responsibilities are related to Anti-APT and EDR solutions.

Alexey is interested in APT research, steganography and malware communication protocol analyzing.

Fedor is a lead malware analyst at Kaspersky working in the anti-ransom team.

He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics with a Specialist Degree in Computer and Information Security. His graduation thesis involves research in the field of elliptic curve cryptography.

Fedor joined Kaspersky as a junior malware analyst in 2010. In 2012, he joined the heuristic detection group where he was responsible for analysis of file infecting viruses and for the development of disinfection routines used by Kaspersky’s security solutions to combat these threats.

Since 2014, Fedor has mainly focused on crypto-ransomware and cracking the cryptographic algorithms used by the malware in order to allow the victims to decrypt their data without paying the ransom.

He has numerous publications dedicated to ransomware analysis on Securelist.

Denis joined Kaspersky in 2008 as a malware analyst within the newly formed Statistical Analysis and Detection Group, which he later led. In this role, Denis gained expertise in malicious websites investigation, statistical analysis, malware detection, and took part in establishing several Kaspersky systems and services (such as Astraea, Kaspersky Security Network, Threat Data Feeds).

In 2015, web-related threat research became his primary activity, alongside statistical research. By 2018, the focus of his work shifted to threat intelligence services, including botnet tracking.

Since 2020, Denis has led the Threat Monitoring and Heuristic Detection Team, with additional responsibilities for the software classification group.

Viсtoria joined Kaspersky in 2015 as a junior malware analyst in the Web-Related Threats Research Group, playing an active role in the formation of a URL filtering list. Today, Viсtoria is a senior malware analyst in the Threats Monitoring and Heuristic Detection Group. Her area of expertise continues to be web-related threats and URL blocklists. She graduated from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) in 2017 as an information security specialist.

Maxim joined Kaspersky’s IT department in 2011 as a Duty System Administrator on the Service Desk. In 2017, he became an IT Services Expert Support Group manager, responsible for 24/7 IT services infrastructure monitoring and user request processing.

While working on the Service Desk, Maxim participated in several successful projects. These projects range from migration to a new monitoring system from Nagios and MS SCOM. In addition to this he oversaw virtualization for R&D, based on MS Virtualization and the secure integration between KLAN and CSS.

Since 2018, Maxim has been manager of the Shifted Virus Analysts Group, responsible for 24/7 client request processing, update release process monitoring, detection related incident monitoring, and IDS detection rate improvement.

Maxim graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute as an engineer-mathematician. He also holds a Mini-MBA from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia.

Dmitry joined Kaspersky in 2014 as an information security architect. In this role, he helped development teams implement security templates and techniques, and privacy (including GDPR required) approaches in products and services. He also contributed to the GDPR compliance of Kaspersky products. In 2018, Dmitry became head of Software Security, where he manages a team responsible for supporting and improving secure development lifecycle practices. This includes security and privacy requirements, threat modelling, static and dynamic code analysis, fuzzing testing, and application pentesting.

Before joining Kaspersky, Dmitry worked with IT companies for 19 years, 15 of which he specialized in information security. Notably, Dmitry worked as Chief Information Security Officer for a financial company, where he was responsible for the information security of company infrastructure and IT assets.

Yury Slobodyanuk joined Kaspersky in August 2008, originally as a C++ developer. He then joined the Anti-Malware Technological Development Department, first as a group manager leading the development of System Watcher, PDM, HIPS, and other services and then as a project manager.

In 2019, he became the head of Content Filtering Research, the team responsible for phishing and email threats detection, and content categorization.

Andrey joined Kaspersky in 2018. He works in the Content Filtering Research (CFR) department and is engaged in content analysis and development of solutions to counter online fraud: phishing, scam, and spam. A special portion of Andrey's working day is occupied by projects related to the topic of child safety on the Internet.

Prior to Kaspersky, Andrey worked as a computer science teacher; he is also the winner of the Russian Teacher of the Year 2013 competition. In 2015, he entered the top 10 most cited teachers in the world according to the Connect Learning Today American teacher community.

Anna joined Kaspersky in 2009 as a web content analyst in the content Filtering Research Group, working as part of the CFR team. She began her role as the first porn analyst in the team, building it up almost from scratch and filtering websites by category. Over the years, Anna has devoted time and commitment to Kaspersky, starting as an ordinary analyst and becoming an expert in her field.

Anna specializes in social media, privacy, general and specific issues of child safety in the network. She also participated in the creation and development of projects for the analysis of search queries and tracking. For example, she created features for products, such as ‘Safe Kids’ by Kaspersky and developed a system for evaluating internet services on how they should comply with GDPR and CCPA. Presently, Anna continues to contribute to threat research related to privacy as a web content analysis expert.

Mikhail Sytnik joined Kaspersky's IT department in 2016. In 2019 he moved to R&D as a web content analyst to fight phishing and other fraudulent content. He continues the fight against cybercriminals in his role of web content analysts’ team lead.