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I don't think that accurately characterizes the situation. The article says Kapersky sabotaged competitors' antimalware products (and thereby sabotaged probably
by hackuser 11y ago
I don't think that accurately characterizes the situation. The article says Kapersky sabotaged competitors' antimalware products (and thereby sabotaged probably millions of end-user computers).
- sergers 11y agoI think it does some up the situation. Kaspersky blasted the equation group which hinted at it being US orgs part of it. Since then there have been numerous articles against kaspersky, imo trying to make them look bad. There was a previous article recently posted on HN which basically about the same thing. Kaspersky felt other companies were stealing it's virus signatures/heuristics so they created false positives to discredit the company, which would prove they were taking their info (cause they would flag as false positives based on the bad info they took). I don't think anyone has proof they actually did this, and other av vendors are keeping quiet, which might mean nothing happened or they are upto their own no-good deeds they don't want brought to light