![]() The customer’s existing filters, firewall, and client agents were not catching any of this activity. ![]() A few devices exhibited a great deal more activity, however, pinging Kaspersky sites several times each day. Most of these beacons happened irregularly, suggesting periodic searches for updates. The signatures included regular checks of the Kaspersky upgrade servers and attempted activations. According to a recent report, Kaspersky Lab code is “embedded deep within infrastructure, in routers, firewalls, and other hardware-and nobody is certain how to get rid of it.”īlueCat knows about this problem firsthand.ĭuring a recent deployment of our DNS Edge security capability at a customer that had decided to remove Kaspersky Lab’s software, we found a great deal of activity on the network after the customer believed they had the issue under control.ĭNS Edge picked up signatures indicative of installed Kaspersky Lab software from clients where it was supposed to be absent. ![]() Removal leads to troubling discoveryĪs it happens, removing Kaspersky Lab software isn’t as simple as hitting the delete button. ![]() In December, the directive was enshrined into law by Section 1634 the National Defense Authorization Act of 2017 (Public Law 115-91), which says that “no department, agency, organization, or other element of the Federal Government may use, whether directly or through work with or on behalf of another department, agency, organization, or element of the Federal Government, any hardware, software, or services developed or provided, in whole or in part, by Kaspersky Labs.” Agencies were given a hard deadline of Octoto comply with the law, and DHS was given the power to measure compliance across government agencies. While Kaspersky lab denies the allegations and is fighting the issue in court, the Department of Homeland Security decided to take immediate action.ĭHS issued a directive in September 2017 ordering all Federal government departments to remove Kaspersky Lab software from their networks – a ban that continues to have ripple effects across the private sector as well. With a series of leaks about high-level security incidents and revelations about the company’s potential connections to the Russian government, Kaspersky Lab has been in the news a lot recently. ![]()
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