Stefan Mileschin

In the latest round of Kaspersky drama, the AP is reporting that Kaspersky's anti-virus software had automatically scraped powerful digital surveillance tools off an NSA server. Kaspersky is stating that the filles were immediately deleted, "If we see confidential or classified information, it will be immediately deleted and that was exactly (what happened in) this case," he said, adding that the order had since been written into company policy. The article goes into more detail on what happened. Eugene Kaspersky said in an interview that Analysts at his company were already on the trail of the Equation Group - a powerful group of hackers later exposed as an arm of the NSA - when a computer in the United States was flagged for further investigation. The machine's owner, identified in media reports as an NSA worker, had run anti-virus scans on their home computer after it was infected by a pirated copy of Microsoft Office, according to a Kaspersky timeline released Wednesday. The rabbit hole of the Kaspersky stuff just keeps getting deeper. From the US Government moving to ban the software in federal agencies and stores pulling it off the shelves, I really don't think we've heard the end of this any time soon.

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