The US Senate want to ban the use of Kaspersky Laboratory programs in the army

The US Senate Committee approved a bill on the ban on the use of Kaspersky Laboratory programs in the American army. It is reported by Reuters.

The author of the bill - the Senator -Democrat from New Hampshire Gene Shahin - noted that the Kaspersky Laboratory may be influenced by the Russian authorities. " “The connections between the Kaspersky laboratory and the Kremlin are very disturbed,” Shahin emphasized.

The senator added that both in the Congress and in the presidential administration Donald Trump there is a unanimous opinion that the products of this developer "cannot be relyed in protecting the critical infrastructure, in particular computer systems vital for our national security."

Now the bill must receive the approval of the entire composition of the Senate, and then be adopted by the House of Representatives. After that, he will enter the signature to Trump.

On the evening of Tuesday, the FBI agents in several cities of the United States visited American employees of Kaspersky Laboratory and interviewed them. As NBC News reported , agents in particular were interested in the degree of accountability of the American unit of the company headquarters in Moscow. At the same time, the visitor assured that their interlocutors personally have nothing to fear.

In May, high -ranking officials of the American special services, testing in the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that they studied the use of the products of the Russian company by US government agencies.

However, Reuters notes, it is unclear whether the investigation begun in relation to the Kaspersky Laboratory is related to the Russian Presidential President’s intervention case.

Evgeny Kaspersky, the founder of the company, expressed his readiness to testify in the Senate in order to scatter all possible suspicions.

The Kaspersky laboratory repeatedly assured that she was not connected with any state structures and mentioned the accusations that her programs were conducting espionage in the interests of the Kremlin. Meanwhile, American officials have long suspected companies in relations with Russian special services.