The controversy between the US government through the FBI and the Russian security company Kaspersky is well kept. The US authorities banned the company's antivirus service, and the FBI just pushed the private sector to remove the security products of the Russian company from their systems.
The FBI is asking US-based companies to abandon the software of Kaspersky, as it considers the Russian company to represent a "threat to national security", according to a publication by CyberScoop.
The FBI has begun to exert pressure on US companies to uninstall its security products Kaspersky from their systems earlier this year, and the source that disclosed it asked not to be named for obvious reasons. Companies in the energy sector and those using industrial control systems (ICS) as well as SCADAs are at the top of the list of hazards.
Companies in the energy sector are under particular pressure from the FBI, as US authorities are worried about recent attacks that destroyed the grid in Ukraine and connected with Russian hacker groups.
The reason the FBI is pushing to get rid of Kaspersky's software is the security firm's alleged relationship with Russia.
The US administration claims that many of today's security company employees are former Russian intelligence agents and that Russian laws could allow the government to control a local business and use it to spy on other nations.
Kaspersky has already responded to all these allegations, explaining that there are no ties not only with Russia but also with no other government. The Russian company has even offered to testify before the US Congress and deliver the source code of its software for further checks.
