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Kaspersky defends its role in NSA breach
Source: BBC
Kaspersky defends its role in NSA breach
By Gordon Corera
Security correspondent
16 November 2017 Technology
The Russian-headquartered anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab has hit back at reports it deliberately extracted sensitive files from a US National Security Agency worker's computer.
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But the company has now said this was not deliberate and any classified documents were destroyed.
It said its researchers had been investigating malicious software created by "the Equation Group", which is widely understood to be Kaspersky's codeword for the NSA.
And this research had included looking for signatures relating to known Equation activity on machines running the company's software.
On 11 September 2014, the company said, one of its products deployed on a home computer with an internet protocol (IP) address in Baltimore, Maryland - close to where the NSA is based - had reported what appeared to be variants of the malware used by the Equation Group.
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By Gordon Corera
Security correspondent
16 November 2017 Technology
The Russian-headquartered anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab has hit back at reports it deliberately extracted sensitive files from a US National Security Agency worker's computer.
-snip-
But the company has now said this was not deliberate and any classified documents were destroyed.
It said its researchers had been investigating malicious software created by "the Equation Group", which is widely understood to be Kaspersky's codeword for the NSA.
And this research had included looking for signatures relating to known Equation activity on machines running the company's software.
On 11 September 2014, the company said, one of its products deployed on a home computer with an internet protocol (IP) address in Baltimore, Maryland - close to where the NSA is based - had reported what appeared to be variants of the malware used by the Equation Group.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42009599
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