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Caspersky CEO Yevgeny Kaspersky admitted that the company's antivirus downloaded secret data from the ANB employee and sent them antivirus developers, reports Associated Press.

According to Kaspersky, in 2014, Antivirus automatically sent spy programs from a computer in the United States to analysts on the Laboratory to analysts. From the files, it became clear that they were secret, and Kaspersky immediately ordered his employees to remove them, the creator of the antivirus assured them.

The report on the Laboratory website says that the data leak occurred in September 2014, and the files found by the antivirus belonged to the hacker group of Equation Group, which is associated with the US National Security Agency. We are talking about the spy program Backdoor.win32.mokes. As it turned out, this program, disguised as a key of keys for the pirate version of Microsoft Office, was stored on the HSA home computer, and the antivirus worked for it during checking. The last time, in the company, the antivirus program stated in the company in November of the same year.

The creator of Antivirus Kaspersky did not answer the agency’s question whether he contacted the NSA when the leakage of secret data is detected. Kaspersky added that he would not want the media to talk about his contacts with the American intelligence services.

Meanwhile, on October 6, the company’s press service stated that the ANB accusations of theft with the antivirus of secret data are groundless. On October 16, in the official blog of the Laboratory, Kaspersky wrote that there is no evidence of the collection of secret information by antivirus. The Laboratory denies the political ties of the company, as well as affiliation with any governments.

On October 12, The Wall Street Journal wrote that the function of searching for secret documents of the US administration was built into the Antivirus of Kaspersky. It was stated that the tests conducted by American experts showed that the antivirus led on computers where it was installed, the search for the phrase by the phrase "Top Secret" (English is completely secret) and the code names of secret American programs.

Information about the connection of the Kaspersky Laboratory with the Russian special services has recently been repeatedly appeared in the press. On June 29, it became known that the US Senate Committee approved a bill prohibiting the use of Kaspersky programs in the American army. 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. "

On July 12, the US presidential administration excluded the Kaspersky laboratory from the list of suppliers, whose products were approved for use by government agencies. As noted, such a decision is designed to "ensure the integrity and protection of state systems and networks of the United States."

September 13, acting The US Minister of Internal Security, Elaine Duke, ordered the federal executive structures of the executive branch within 90 days to completely abandon the products of the Kaspersky Laboratory and its subsidiaries. As noted, Kaspersky programs receive deep access to files on computers, and this can be used by attackers to hack information systems. It was noted that "the Ministry is concerned between individual managers of the" Kaspersky Laboratory "and intelligence or other government structures of Russia, as well as Russian law, which allows intelligence to request or demand from Kaspersky aid in the interception of data passing through Russian networks."