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I think there was an incident in which some NSA contractor had Kaspersky installed in their workstation and the heuristic caught up NSA tools https://www.thegua

• toyg 5y ago
  They did the right thing - finding suspiciously malicious code is their job. Not their fault the user was an idiot, spooks PEBKAC is still PEBKAC.
  • dralley 5y ago
    Sure, but the allegation was that soon after Kasperky detected the NSA tools on his system he was hit with a very targeted cyberattack. IIRC that's where the allegations of Kasperky's involvement with the Russian government came in. And anecdotally there were a lot of MSPs in /r/sysadmin claiming that every single one of their Kasperky customers would be hit by ransomware while few if any of their other customers were.
  • flutas 5y ago
    > They did the right thing - finding suspiciously malicious code is their job. Not their fault the user was an idiot, spooks PEBKAC is still PEBKAC. Except for this part, which leaves a huge question of "do they share knowledge with the russian govt." > But the bigger unknown is whether and how Kaspersky’s acknowledged discovery and acquisition of NSA hacking tools resulted in Russian intelligence agencies discovering the NSA contractor, and targeting him for further, apparently successful, attacks.