They've still got some brilliant malware re & analysis guys and their lab is an excellent one, but I wouldn't use them.
No, not exactly. In reality the software worked as intended and sampled an unidentified program that it considered malicious. It just so happened to be a piece of NSA malware contained on a NSA employee's computer (who re-enabled KAV on his machine after infecting it with a fake Office activator). The US government needed a quick scapegoat and thus they picked the spooky russian company instead of their own employee.
After the allegations were made, Kaspersky opened itself up for third-party auditing of its internal processes, relationship with the government and the events surrounding the above, of which it provides regular updates of: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/internal-investigation-prelim... https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/transparency-status-updates/2...
They're also moving all data processing to Switzerland, way outside of the reach of the Russian government.
[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/26/nsa_worker_jailed/
Just more political warfare bullshit.
I'm impressed the Kaspersky is going to these lengths to remove the means for the US government to baselessly criticize simply because they originate from a country that the US loathes.
Furthermore, the fact that the Russian government is seemingly okay with this simply adds to everything the Russian government is doing to nullify any of the attempts the US is making to accuse them with unproven lies.
One of these days, I hope that the US government loses it's grip on the planet, so that they have to play fair, instead of simply doing whatever they want because they're the de facto singular superpower in terms of military power and intelligence capabilities.
(1) TLA guy had TLA developed malware on his laptop
(2) Kaspersky recognized possible malware and uploaded it to their system for further analysis.
(3) TLA from another country has hacked Kaspersky system and alerts Americans that their malware is out.
(4) TLA tries to hide their incompetence by accusing Kaspersky of working with FSB to hack US computers.
I'm with the Russians on this one.