Κυκλοφορεί μια παράξενη δημοσίευση από το Reuters: Η Kaspersky Lab, δημοφιλής υπηρεσία ασφαλείας, φέρεται να αναπτύσσει ψεύτικα 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 initially intended to punish them smallerυς ανταγωνιστές της εταιρείας που "έκλεβαν" την τεχνολογία της.
How did it work?
Η Κaspersky πρόσθετε σε εφαρμογές κώδικα που αν και φαινόταν επικίνδυνος δεν ήταν. Στη συνέχεια, έστελνε ανώνυμα τα αρχεία σε aggregators κακόβουλου λογισμικού όπως τη VirusTotal της Google. Όταν οι ανταγωνιστές της έβλεπαν την προσcase του "κακόβουλου" αρχείου, πρόσθεταν τον κώδικα στην λίστα με τους ιούς που αναγνώριζε το λογισμικό τους. Έτσι οι εταιρείες έδιναν false positives στους καταναλωτές, κάτι που τις καθιστούσε αναξιόπιστες.
Kaspersky, with this particular hoax, is reported to have hit big enough rivals like Microsoft, AVG and Avast. These companies did not report any comments about Kaspersky, but had previously told Reuters that an unknown third party is 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 engaged in any covert campaign to deceive competitors by producing false positives to tarnish them in the market. Such actions are unethical, dishonest and their legality is questionable to say the least."
Eugene Kaspersky was not really happy with the Reuters publication, and he said from Twitter:
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