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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security banned Kaspersky products from all government departments on 13 September 2017. In October 2017, subsequent reports alleged that hackers working for the Russian government stole confidential data from the home computer of an National Security Agency contractor using Kaspersky antivirus software.
Kaspersky has actively denied that it has such ties with the Russian government, but acknowledged that its software had extracted files from the contractor's computer in the course of its operations.
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_Lab
Kapersky discovered the Red October malware
Red October
Main article: Red October (malware)
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_Lab
In January 2013, Kaspersky discovered the Red October malware, which had been used for widespread cyber-espionage for five years. It targeted political targets like embassies, nuclear sites, mostly in Europe, Switzerland and North America. The malware was likely written by Russian-speaking hackers and the exploits by Chinese hackers.[95][96] That June, Kaspersky discovered NetTraveler, which it said was obtaining data on emerging technology from government targets and oil companies. Kaspersky did not identify who was behind it, but it was similar to other cyber-espionage coming from Beijing, China.[97][98] Later that same year, Kaspersky discovered a hacker group it called Icefog after investigating an cybersecurity attack on a Japanese television company. Kaspersky said the hacker group, possibly from China, was unique in that they targeted specific files they seemed to know about before planting malware to extract them.[99][100]
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_October_(malware)