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Do you have any sources for this? I'm interested in reading more about it after seeing a lot of allegations. I don't recall ever seeing anything concrete.


Literally one google search gave me this.[1] You could have saved a lot of time writing "Kaspersky FSB GRU" in google than writing this comment to someone to cite their sources.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-11/kaspersky...


Yeah sorry, I should have been more specific. I was looking for evidence that:

> Kaspersky was spying on international citizens for over a decade, providing data for both the FSB and GRU.

You linked a news article that states:

> The U.S. government hasn’t identified any evidence connecting Kaspersky Lab to Russia’s spy agencies

Maybe more evidence will be uncovered by the (alleged) targeted attack against Kaspersky though.

I'm interested in the technology created to perform these activities more than the politics surrounding it. How they do it, not why.


Could you quote a paragraph from that article that supports the claim

> Kaspersky was spying on international citizens for over a decade, providing data for both the FSB and GRU.

I read it through twice and aside from implication the strongest assertion was that Bloomberg had seen emails that confirmed Kaspersky had worked with the FSB to supply anti-DDOS systems that included counter measures (the ability to hack and disrupt hackers attacking systems) which wasn't denied by Kaspersky who maintained they do similar work with many governments and their 3-letter-agencies.


There's apparently an entire wiki on the subject and again it's mostly speculation, misunderstanding (ie, in the NSA case), or as you said misrepresenting what was essentially a pretty innocuous defensive gov contract by an infosec company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_bans_and_allegations...

It makes sense for western governments to be wary of using it but going beyond that is just speculation at this point.




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