The white house has limited the use of virus programs for government agencies
The white house exclude “Kaspersky” from a list of software suppliers whose products are approved for use by U.S. government agencies. The company is suspected of “close ties with a hostile Russian intelligence services accused of cyber attacks on the United States.”
As reported by Reuters, this is due to “the fear of the penetration of the Kremlin in the American network.”
According to journalists, the company suspected of “close ties with a hostile Russian intelligence services accused of cyber attacks on the United States.”
In “Kaspersky Lab” told the news Agency that the company had “no links with any government, the company has never helped and will not help any government in the attempts of cyber espionage. We were in the center of geopolitical struggle in which each side is trying to use us as a pawn in their game”.
July 11 Bloomberg Businessweek reported that “Kaspersky’s Laboratory” by order of the FSB allegedly developed a secret system of protection from DDoS-attacks, establishing the whereabouts of hackers. The company later denied this information, saying that cooperating with the law enforcement agencies of different countries, including Russian, conducting technical examination and analysis of malicious software when investigating cyber incidents. Thus, according to the representative from the FSB never received an official request with a proposal to create protection from DDoS-attacks, or to participate in the project for its development.