'Very High Level of Confidence' Russia Used Kaspersky Software For Devastating NSA Leaks (yahoo.com)

bricko shares a report from Yahoo Finance: Three months after U.S. officials asserted that Russian intelligence used popular antivirus company Kaspersky to steal U.S. classified information, there are indications that the alleged espionage is related to a public campaign of highly damaging NSA leaks by a mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers. In August 2016, the Shadow Brokers began leaking classified NSA exploit code that amounted to hacking manuals. In October 2017, U.S. officials told major U.S. newspapers that Russian intelligence leveraged software sold by Kaspersky to exfiltrate classified documents from certain computers. (Kaspersky software, like all antivirus software, requires access to everything stored on a computer so that it can scan for malicious software.) And last week the Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. investigators "now believe that those manuals [leaked by Shadow Brokers] may have been obtained using Kaspersky to scan computers on which they were stored." Members of the computer security industry agree with that suspicion. "I think there's a very high level of confidence that the Shadow Brokers dump was directly related to Kaspersky ... and it's very much attributable," David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec, told Yahoo Finance. "Unfortunately, we can only hear that from the intelligence side about how they got that information to see if it's legitimate."

Comments

Re:Very high level of confidence in TREASON

[DRJlaw]

Funny anyone asking for real evidence gets modded troll immediately. TLA's are here and are "controlling the narrative" - but failing.

Where's the evidence of this?

Re: Kaspersky did their job

[poity]

Absolutely correct. The PDF where intelligence community officials say they have a high degree of confidence and backed it up with diagrams of computer networks, we all knew the case was bulletproof. And when IT pros read that document and saw those diagrams they literally said "it's Russia via Kaspersky 100%, also Tuck Frumpf".

Re: So, what steps?

[poity]

We can only draw one conclusion: Kaspersky illegally ignored the "Top secret NSA virus do not upload for analysis" metatag embedded in those files.