Following NSA-Kaspersky Fallout, US Businesses Move to Pull the Firm’s Products from Shelves

Following NSA-Kaspersky Fallout, US Businesses Move to Pull the Firm’s Products from Shelves

7 years ago
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A bombshell report published last week alleged that Kaspersky’s antivirus program was used by the hackers working for Russia to hack into the computer of a NSA contractor. The Moscow-based firm is fighting for its survival now as businesses move to remove its products off the shelves.

NSA and its contractor problems came back to life again as the WSJ reported that hackers in 2015 targeted an NSA employee to steal classified materials. The contractor took the classified data home and opened the documents on their personal computer that had Kaspersky AV running. Described as one the most significant security breaches, the hack revealed to the Russian intelligence how the United States “penetrates foreign computer networks, the computer code it uses for such spying, and how it defends networks inside the US.”