Kris Kaspersky (born Nikolay Likhachev,[1] November 2, 1976 – February 18, 2017[2][3][4]) was a Russian hacker,[a] writer and IT security researcher.

[5][6] Kris Kaspersky was born on November 2, 1976, in the village of Uspenskoye, Krasnodar Krai, and at birth was named Nikolay.

Being just a few weeks old he suffered a brain stroke, which came as a result of injection of calcium chloride, mistakenly made by a doctor.

To catch the fish, player needed to press space bar.His next computer, Electronika BK-0010, helped Kris to master assembly.

Except for his birthday, Kris does not remember exact dates and chronology of events, he reconstructs them based on computer models he had at various periods of his life.

Kris Kaspersky had to give the remaining money and the computer to racketeers and returned to the native village to his parents.

In 1999 "Solon-Press" published the first book of Kris Kaspersky "Technique and philosophy of hacker attacks" with 50 000 rubles of author's fee.

He is a maniacally enthusiastic person, one can always address him with a request: "We need to reverse engineer WM Keeper, to understand what it's spying upon a PC, and write a 25 kilobytes article about it until tomorrow morning.

In late October 2008 he made a presentation on a fundamentally new holes in Intel processors, suitable for remote capture of multiple servers at a conference Hack in the Box in Kuala Lumpur.

"Kris knows the answer to the main question concerning security – he knows the way it works, – says CEO of the company Christopher Jordan.

“His fame outside Russia is not exaggerated – says another Endeavor employee Alice Chang – he's a very well-known hacker, in the original sense of the word: a man who understands the very basics of how it works.

His penname "myschh" was chosen owing to the novel "Dune" which is a great favorite of his (Kris often used quotations from the novel, in particular, in his first book "Technique and philosophy of hacker attacks"[9]).

[7] On February 10, 2017, Kris Kaspersky (Nikolay Likhachev) was critically injured in a hard landing after sky diving: "A sky diver who took a hard landing at Skydive DeLand remains in intensive care and is unable to communicate, a nurse at Halifax Health Medical Center said Monday.

The sky diver, 40-year-old Nikolay Likhachev, suffered a compound fracture to his left leg and a head injury, an incident report released Monday by DeLand police states.

Likhachev […] was injured Friday just before 9:15 a.m."[5] Kris Kaspersky was taken off life support and died from his wounds a week later on February 18, 2017.