After months of escalating hostility toward the Russian cybersecurity company and antivirus maker Kaspersky, including its complete banishment from US government agency computers, the New York Times reports that Russia has in fact used Kaspersky antivirus software to probe federal systems for US intelligence secrets.
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"Any widely used software could be leveraged in the same way," says Mohammad Mannan, a security researcher at Concordia University who has studied antivirus vulnerabilities.
https://www.wired.com/story/kaspersky-russia-antivirus/
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