“If Kaspersky was based in Manchester, it would have a connection with British intelligence.” “Any major cybersecurity company will have a relationship with the intelligence agency in its country,” he says. That the company has a relationship with intelligence agencies is not unusual, says Mark Galeotti, the coordinator of the Center for European Security at the Institute of International Relations Prague. As the billionaire has put it, his goal is not to earn money, but “to save the world.” It is a role that Eugene Kaspersky, the co-founder of the company that carries his name, has welcomed. It is particularly popular in the West, which accounted for more than half of the firm’s $633 million in sales in 2016, Bloomberg has reported.Īs a large cybersecurity firm, Kaspersky is a natural ally of Russian intelligence agencies in catching cybercrooks. According to Forbes, the company boasts 400 million users of its software products in more than 30 countries around the world. Kaspersky is primarily known for its antivirus software. In a world where the cyberdefender is also a potential hacker or Russian spy, the thinking goes, the Kremlin is always watching. Group-IB’s push into international markets, then, comes just as the West is growing more wary of Russian cyber-espionage capabilities.
Other Western governments may follow suit.
government has begun purging itself of Kaspersky software, and retailers have also pulled it off their shelves.
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