Kaspersky caught NSA data thief

Stefan Mileschin · 10th January 2019, 12:24

Not bad for the greatest threat to US security

The US is having a problem with its anti-Kaspersky spin again.

For a while now, the US has claimed that Kaspersky was a tool of the Russian secret services and ordered the av software to be taken off government servers.

However, it has now been revealed that the 2016 arrest of a former National Security Agency contractor charged with a massive theft of classified data began thanks to a Kaspersky tip.

Kaspersky Lab turned Harold T. Martin III in to the NSA after receiving strange Twitter messages in 2016 from an account linked to him.

Kaspersky passed the US government five messages from an anonymous Twitter account named @HAL999999999 to two researchers at the company. The first message, sent August 15, 2016, requested that a researcher facilitate a conversation with "Yevgeny," the given name of Kaspersky Lab founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky. "So, figure out how we talk... With Yevgeny present," the message read. The second message: "Shelf life, three weeks."

The messages came just 30 minutes before someone calling themselves Shadow Brokers dumped a link to a collection of NSA tools in a Tumblr post and announced additional tools would be auctioned off for 1 million Bitcoin.

https://fudzilla.com/news/47915-kasp...nsa-data-thief

10th January 2019, 12:24	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,578	Kaspersky caught NSA data thief Not bad for the greatest threat to US security The US is having a problem with its anti-Kaspersky spin again. For a while now, the US has claimed that Kaspersky was a tool of the Russian secret services and ordered the av software to be taken off government servers. However, it has now been revealed that the 2016 arrest of a former National Security Agency contractor charged with a massive theft of classified data began thanks to a Kaspersky tip. Kaspersky Lab turned Harold T. Martin III in to the NSA after receiving strange Twitter messages in 2016 from an account linked to him. Kaspersky passed the US government five messages from an anonymous Twitter account named @HAL999999999 to two researchers at the company. The first message, sent August 15, 2016, requested that a researcher facilitate a conversation with "Yevgeny," the given name of Kaspersky Lab founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky. "So, figure out how we talk... With Yevgeny present," the message read. The second message: "Shelf life, three weeks." The messages came just 30 minutes before someone calling themselves Shadow Brokers dumped a link to a collection of NSA tools in a Tumblr post and announced additional tools would be auctioned off for 1 million Bitcoin. https://fudzilla.com/news/47915-kasp...nsa-data-thief

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