Reuters recently blast a interesting news about Kaspersky Lab. For over ten years they might have created fake malware to mischief its competitor. Apparently it looks harmful and other antivirus companies mark it as infected though the software is nothing.
Two ex-employees from Kaspersky told reuters that the surreptitious attack was only to punish the
small rival companies whom kaspersky thinks they are stealing their technology.
They also described the functionality of this kind of fake malware
It basically worked like this: Kaspersky would inject dangerous-looking
code into common pieces of software. It would then anonymously submit the
files to malware aggregators such as Google-owned VirusTotal. When
competitors added the malware to their detection engines, they’d
mistakenly flag the original files because of the similar code.
Big rivals like Microsoft, AVG, Avast was also the prior target for this kind of false attack. Though they did not claim any imputation against kaspersky. However, some of them informed reuter previously that, an anonymous third party is trying to trick them into marking false positive.
In this context, Kaspersky Global IT security Head Mr. Eugene Kaspersky strongly
denied the allegation. In his twitter he mentioned:
I don’t usually read @reuters. But when I do, I see false positives.
For the record: this story is a complete BS: https://kas.pr/1eka
Kaspersky team also denied the claims:
“Our company has never conducted any secret campaign to trick competitors
into generating false positives to damage their market standing.
Such actions are unethical, dishonest and their legality is at least
questionable.”
For more on the allegation , check the source link below:
Exclusive: Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals - Ex-employees [Reuters]
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