Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware

Re:Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware by neartheplain on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:31PM (#26973138)

>How do you go from reading "the CIA is lying" to "the FSB is telling the truth"?

The link is a Kaspersky press release, so there’s potential for an FSB connection:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-11/kaspersky...

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Re:Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware by freeflight on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:27PM (#26974433)

Using that same logic most statements out of the US corporate InfoSec establishment should be similarly scrutinized.

A whole lot of these outfits are started by former NSA employees, and they love having people that previously worked in US national security on their rooster for the marketing value.

Yet whenever one of these outfits accuses China/Russia/Iran of being responsible for the latest "cyber incident"/"misinformation campaign" these accusations are widely regurgitated without any doubt like some kind of definitive factual truth.

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Re:Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware by shkkmo on Thursday April 29, 2021 @01:22AM (#26977726)

If the leader of the infosec company is ex-CIA... that doesn't seem unreasonable.

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Re:Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware by encryptluks2 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:46PM (#26973299)

Yet it wasn't until relatively recently that they stopped selling Kaspersky at major retailers. Even if they have an FSB connection they are basically saying, well we now know that company we let get loose on millions of consumer desktops and enterprise/government systems in the US is connected to Russian intelligence. Oops!

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