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How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets

posted by takyon on Saturday October 14 2017, @12:49AM   
from the proactive-data-recovery dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

Last week, The Wall Street Journal dropped a bombshell when it reported that Russian government hackers located confidential National Security Agency material improperly stored on an employee's home computer with help from Kaspersky antivirus, which happened to be installed. On Tuesday, The New York Times and The Washington Post provided another shocker: the Russian hackers were caught in the act by spies from Israel, who were burrowed deep inside Kaspersky's corporate network around the time of the theft.

Ars Technica: How Kaspersky AV reportedly was caught helping Russian hackers steal NSA secrets

The New York Times: How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets

The Washington Post: Israel hacked Kaspersky, then tipped the NSA that its tools had been breached (archive)

Previously: Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools

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• Re:This almost hurts, guys (Score: 2, Informative) by pTamok on Saturday October 14 2017, @09:19AM

  by pTamok (3042) on Saturday October 14 2017, @09:19AM (#582224)

  Geographically, a major part of the the dividing line between Europe and Asia is the Ural mountains.

  The conventional boundary [wikipedia.org] between Europe and Asia is

  along the Turkish Straits, the Caucasus and the Urals (historically also north of the Caucasus, along the Kuma–Manych Depression or along the Don River)

  Crimea and Baltic states have always been placed geographically in Europe.

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