Yet Graham and many at 'el reg' are having a love fest for Kaspersky,and bashing the US. I mean,didn't anyone actually read the Bloomberg article,because the former employee's said that the security programs could easily be turned against users.

I don't understand why so many people are so quick to jump to the defense of Kaspersky. Not to mention,Russia does nothing to stop hackers,except when they go after other Russians that is. 'Crowdstrike first found 'Energetic Bear' and did the write-up on that Russian malware. Don't believe me,go read the articles on securelist,and I checked,Arbor Networks first found 'Black Energy' then two years later Dell reported on new variations. Not only that,but he tries to mitigate the Russian connection to any malware. Kaspersky does not go after Russian malware,but simply reports on it after someone else has discovered and analised it already. It feels like the WSJ is deliberately misrepresenting Kaspersky’s denial to sow the seeds of doubt in conspiracy theorists’ minds.įound this article interesting? Follow Graham Cluley on Twitter or Mastodon to read more of the exclusive content we post. That’s quite different from what the Wall Street Journal is implying.

He said: “It’s not impossible that there might be Russian intelligence officials visiting the same building simultaneously with me, but I don’t know them.” Just read his rebuttal of the Bloomberg report. Eugene Kaspersky admitted he goes to the sauna with his Kaspersky Lab workmates, but denied he’s scrubbing the back of the FSB, or having secret assignations with the Kremlin in the hot baths. Kaspersky didn’t deny the sauna gatherings, but argued they weren’t conspiratorial and the presence of spies was coincidental.” “Bloomberg asserted Kaspersky attends sauna nights with Russian spies and is deeply intertwined with the Kremlin. But what I found under-the-belt was how the WSJ reported the sauna allegation:

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