Stories in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have since cited anonymous sources accusing Kaspersky of siphoning American secrets, including the files of an NSA staffer, to its own servers, where the Russian government then accessed them. Last month's GSA edict put an official stamp on those suspicions, but without any official explanation as to what exactly the Moscow-based cybersecurity firm has done to merit them. And as the rest of the world decides whether it needs to similarly rid itself of all Kaspersky code, it's starting to get impatient for answers.įor years, rumors have followed Kaspersky and its billionaire founder, Eugene Kaspersky, regarding ties to Russian intelligence agencies. But while American federal agencies remove all traces of one of the world's most popular pieces of security software from their networks, they have yet to explain exactly what merits that Government Services Administration ban. More than a month has passed since the antivirus giant Kaspersky Lab had its US government business executed without a trial.

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