A strange publication is circulating from Reuters: U Kaspersky Lab, popular service security, has reportedly been developing fake malware for over ten years to harm its competitors. The software was/is harmless, but Kaspersky had discovered a way to trick its competitors into thinking it was dangerous. 
Two former Kaspersky employees told Reuters that the illegal attack was originally intended to punish the company's smaller competitors who "stole" its technology.
How did it work?
Kaspersky added code to applications that, although it looked dangerous, was not. He then anonymously sent the files to malware aggregators software like the VirusTotal of Google. When her competitors saw the addition of the "malicious" file, they added the code to the list of viruses recognized by their software. So companies were giving false positives to consumers, which made them untrustworthy.
With this particular hoax, Kaspersky has reportedly hit several big rivals, such as Microsoft, AVG and Avast. Those companies had no comment on Kaspersky, but had previously told Reuters that an unknown third party was trying to trick them into giving false positives.
Reuters sources claim only a small group of people they knew about sabotage, which peaked from 2009 to 2013.
Kaspersky, for her part, denied the allegations:
"Our company has not carried out any secret campaign to deceive competitors by producing false positives to tarnish them in the market. Such actions are immoral, dishonest and their legitimacy is at least doubtful. "
Eugene Kaspersky was not really happy with the Reuters publication, and he said from Twitter:
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