Antivirus software is a particularly useful tool for surveillance and infiltration, because for the very purposes of finding viruses, the software needs access to every part of a computer’s file system. The device was running Kaspersky software. Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that an NSA contractor had been hacked and had government secrets stolen from his improperly secured home computer in 2015. Now, with two new reports of Kaspersky being used as surveillance malware, that suspicion seems warranted. Over the last two years, though - since a Bloomberg investigation into the company’s connection to Russian intelligence - suspicion has become more intense. It’s always dogged with rumors of connections to the Russian government, but for most of its existence, they’ve been nothing more than rumors. Congress also began looking into the company’s relationship with the government this past summer.įor more than a decade, Kaspersky has been essentially the Eastern Bloc equivalent of McAfee or Norton - standard enterprise and consumer antivirus software. Around the same time, Best Buy stopped selling Kaspersky software. Last month, the Department of Homeland Security banned federal executive-branch agencies from using any Kaspersky software, ordering them to clear it from their systems within 90 days. has been played by Kaspersky Lab, a Russian developer of antivirus software. Throughout the last year, a supporting role in the mounting drama over Russia’s expansive cyberintelligence operations in the U.S. Photo: Sergei Savostyanov/TASS via Getty Images
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