“It was decided to provide some problems” for rivals, said one ex-employee. The two former Kaspersky Lab employees said the desire to build market share also factored into Kaspersky’s selection of competitors to sabotage.
Kaspersky has won wide respect in the industry for its research on sophisticated Western spying programs and the Stuxnet computer worm that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program in 20.
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The Russian company is one of the most popular antivirus software makers, boasting 400 million users and 270,000 corporate clients.
When contacted this week, they had no comment on the allegation that Kaspersky Lab had targeted them. “Such actions are unethical, dishonest and their legality is at least questionable.”Įxecutives at Microsoft, AVG and Avast previously told Reuters that unknown parties had tried to induce false positives in recent years. “Our company has never conducted any secret campaign to trick competitors into generating false positives to damage their market standing,” Kaspersky said in a statement to Reuters. Kaspersky Lab strongly denied that it had tricked competitors into categorizing clean files as malicious, so-called false positives.
Both sources requested anonymity and said they were among a small group of people who knew about the operation. “Eugene considered this stealing,” said one of the former employees. Some of the attacks were ordered by Kaspersky Lab’s co-founder, Eugene Kaspersky, in part to retaliate against smaller rivals that he felt were aping his software instead of developing their own technology, they said. They said the secret campaign targeted Microsoft Corp MSFT.O, AVG Technologies NV AVG.N, Avast Software and other rivals, fooling some of them into deleting or disabling important files on their customers' PCs.
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