Whilst the U.S. government seeks to eradicate the anti-virus tools of Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab from its networks, the U.K. appears to be taking a more pragmatic approach. Late Friday, GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released fresh guidance on using Russian cybersecurity products in general across government. For example, we really don't want people doing things like ripping out Kaspersky software at large, as it makes little sense." American suspicion of KasperskyAs yet, there's been little reason to suspect misuse of Kaspersky products by the Russian state in the U.K. Government officials told the Wall Street Journal they believed Kaspersky software was exploited by Kremlin-directed hackers to steal the files, which were subsequently leaked by a crew calling themselves the Shadow Brokers.

Source: Forbes December 02, 2017 11:48 UTC