Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer for F-Secure. He has worked with F-Secure since 1991.
Mr. Hypponen led the team that took down the world-wide network used by the Sobig.F worm in 2003, was the first to warn the world about the Sasser outbreak in 2004 and named the infamous Storm Worm in 2007.
Mr. Hypponen has assisted law enforcment in USA, Europe and Asia on cybercrime cases. He has written for magazines such as Scientific American, Foreign Policy and Virus Bulletin.
Mr. Hypponen has addressed the most important security-related conferences worldwide. He is also an inventor for several patents, including US patent 6,577,920 "Computer virus screening". He has been the subject of dozens of interviews in global TV and print media, including a 9-page profile in Vanity Fair.
Mr. Hypponen, born in 1969, was selected among the 50 most important people on the web in March 2007 by the PC World magazine.
Apart from computer security issues, Mr. Hypponen enjoys collecting and restoring classic arcade video games and pinball machines from past decades. He lives with his family, and a small deer community, in an island near Helsinki.
Fighting Organized Online Crime
Abstract:The virus writers as we used to know them have disappeared. They have almost completely been replaced by professional for-profit virus writers.
How does the underground economy work? How do the criminals turn malware into money? How do they move their funds from the cyberworld into real world? And why have we been unable to fix these problems?
