Kenneth Geers, former NATO cyber expert The documents obtained by McClatchy, however, could provide additional evidence that the clandestine FSB has a tight relationship with Kaspersky.Ī worldwide deployment of sensors may be too great a temptation for any country’s intelligence services to ignore. Even so, no proof has ever been made public to refute the company's vehement denials that it has connections to Russian intelligence. In recent days, two events kept Kaspersky in the news: FBI agents fanned out to interview Russian Kaspersky employees based in the United States, and a Senate committee approved legislation to curb federal use of the company's products.
ABC News reported in May that the FBI warned industry leaders about those risks last year – a meeting confirmed by McClatchy. electric grid or other critical infrastructure, such as railroads, airlines or water utilities. elections, concerns have grown that Kaspersky software could somehow be used to launch a crippling cyberattack on the U.S. But amid investigations into Russia's cyber meddling in last year's U.S. Federal agencies use it as well, with Kaspersky serving as a subcontractor on a smattering of federal software contracts, So has, ironically, the Democratic National Committee, even after its emails were breached last summer by Russian hackers.
Its security software is also widely available in the United States in Target, Walmart and other retail outlets. Since he established the firm in Russia 20 years ago, Kaspersky has grown to serve more than 400 million users worldwide, according to its website, and is the largest software vendor in Europe. Founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky studied cryptography, programming and mathematics at an academy operated by the KGB, the FSB's Soviet-era predecessor, then worked for the Ministry of Defense. (Greg Gordon /McClatchy/TNS)įor years, suspicions that Kaspersky is connected to Russia's spying apparatus have dogged the company, a leading global seller of anti-virus programs. One of Kaspersky's certificates that carries a military intelligence unit number.
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