![]() ![]() ![]() Not coincidentally, Kaspersky’s government sales effort never gained traction. The source said industry group officials had an inside joke: “Kaspersky (membership) is like having the Kremlin join.” ![]() When the company sought to join one Washington-based technology trade organization, it was “politely told it couldn’t happen,” according to an industry source with direct knowledge of the matter. Two former employees and a person briefed on the FBI case told Reuters that Kaspersky software has at times inappropriately inspected and removed files from users’ machines in its hunt for alleged cyber criminals, even when those files were not corrupted by viruses.īut the suspicions never subsided. clampdown comes even though officials have offered no public evidence to suggest the company has done anything untoward or that the Russian government is using its software to launch cyber attacks. A Kaspersky spokeswoman said most of the staff, which number less than 10, often work from home. The Arlington offices of KGSS were empty when a Reuters reporter visited them on Thursday. “These reckless actions negatively impact global cybersecurity by limiting competition, slowing down technology innovations and ruining the industry and law enforcement agency cooperation required to catch the bad guys,” he said in a statement to Reuters. Kaspersky says his company is being targeted for political reasons. government, sit closed and empty during normal work hours in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., July 13, 2017. The offices of KGSS (Kaspersky Government Security Solutions), a subsidiary of Kaspersky Lab North America dedicated to providing cybersecurity services to the U.S. There is also a bill before Congress that would explicitly bar the Defense Department from using any Kaspersky products. General Services Administration, the government agency that manages the federal bureaucracy, removed Kaspersky from a list of approved vendors, saying GSA’s mission was to ensure the security of U.S. intelligence chiefs for the first time publicly expressed doubt that Kaspersky products could be trusted.įBI agents last month interviewed Kaspersky employees, asking whether they reported to Russia-based executives and how much data from American customers could be seen by Russian employees, according to three current and former employees. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia had hacked the 2016 U.S. Kaspersky’s American ambitions were further eroded by the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russia relations following Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014, and later when U.S. Kaspersky “has never helped, nor will help, any government in the world with its cyberespionage efforts,” the company said. intelligence officials that he and his company were, or could become, pawns of Russia’s spy agencies. government despite its Russian roots, according to people familiar with the strategy.īut Eugene Kaspersky was never able to overcome lingering suspicions among U.S. trade groups and even underwrote programming on National Public Radio.Īll of this was done to burnish Kaspersky’s image and help it become an accepted vendor for the U.S. He sponsored flashy conferences with high-profile speakers -including Michael Flynn, who was briefly President Donald Trump’s national security adviser - sought to join U.S. subsidiary, KGSS, in Arlington, Virginia that would be focused on winning that business. government - one of the world’s biggest buyers of cybersecurity tools. He wanted his company to go beyond selling anti-virus software to consumers and small businesses and become a major vendor to the U.S. ![]()
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