British spymasters fear that anti-virus software given away for free by Barclays to more than 2 million customers may be being used as an intelligence-gathering tool by the Russian government, the Financial Times reports.
Searches exploited popular Russian-made antivirus software to seek classified material, officials say, according to The Washington Street Journal.
Russian government hackers lifted details of U.S. cyber capabilities from a National Security Agency employee who was running Russian antivirus software on his computer, according to several individuals familiar with the matter, according to the Washington Post.
The U.S. government has ordered all U.S. federal agencies to phase out use of Kaspersky Lab software products, citing “ties between certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies,” according to RFE/RL.