“The department is concerned about the ties between certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies, and requirements under Russian law that allow Russian intelligence agencies to request or compel assistance from Kaspersky and to intercept communications transiting Russian networks,” the DHS said.
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government from using any cybersecurity software from Kaspersky Lab. Whether or not Kaspersky was aware of this particular incident, the Department of Homeland Security issued a directive in September banning the U.S. And since Kaspersky is a Russian company, there’s a chance its antivirus scan was monitored by Russian-government linked hackers. But as the Wall Street Journal reports, “that scanning also gives makers of the software an inventory of what is on the computer,” which could have tipped Russian hackers to the presence of NSA documents. When antivirus software scans for malicious code, it compares what it finds on the computer to a list managed by the antivirus company. It’s also not clear whether Kaspersky was working with the Russian government or whether it was itself hacked. The Wall Street Journal says that this latest known hack is unrelated to Harold Martin, at least, but it’s still not clear whether there’s any connection to the Shadow Brokers. The Shadow Brokers are believed to be linked a Russian intelligence agency. That group published a collection of hacking tools from the NSA, including a number of zero-day exploits, which are vulnerabilities in software, hardware, or even a whole computer network that have never been previously discovered. In 2016, soon after the Kaspersky-linked hack was discovered, the agency was also dealing with leaks from a hacking group called the Shadow Brokers.
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