Updated: Kaspersky may have tricked competitors' software
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Reuters has a scoop from two anonymous ex-Kaspersky Lab employees who claim to have worked on a secret project to sabotage the company's competitors. According to the ex-employees, their job was to reverse-engineer anti-virus software from competing companies to see how those programs could be tricked into identifying a clean file as infected. Targets of the reverse-engineering allegedly included AVG, Avast, and even Microsoft.
According to the report, Kaspersky carried out its sabotage by modifying versions of what Reuters describes as "an important piece of software commonly found in PCs" to appear malicious to the reverse-engineered software. The company then submitted the modified ...