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A partnership between Kaspersky and Europol, the European law enforcement agency, abruptly ended. The United States <a href=\"https:\/\/regulations.justia.com\/regulations\/fedreg\/2018\/06\/15\/2018-12845.html\">implemented<\/a> a ban on Kaspersky products across the federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that was just in the past three days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Kaspersky Labs, the 72-hour stretch marked another period that has once again upended the Russia-based software company amid allegations that it is a sieve for authorities in Moscow. Officially stripped of its ability to sell software to the U.S. federal government on June 15, the losses for Kaspersky labs threatened to spread across the Atlantic Ocean after the E.U. parliament <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/sides\/getDoc.do?pubRef=-\/\/EP\/\/NONSGML+REPORT+A8-2018-0189+0+DOC+PDF+V0\/\/EN\">ripped<\/a> the company as being \u201cconfirmed malicious.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the report was nonbinding, the company\u2019s founder, Eugene Kaspersky, reacted in a series of brash tweets, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/e_kaspersky\/status\/1006498964357697542\">blaming<\/a> a \u201cmedia-ocracy\u201d that is \u201ca vehicle for instilling in readers\u2019 minds images of an \u2018enemy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In retaliation, Kaspersky <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/e_kaspersky\/status\/1006933448328712200\">announced<\/a> it will stop working with Europol and the No More Ransom initiative \u201cuntil the withdraw of the European Parliament decision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for Kaspersky told Fifth Domain that the European decision \u201cis based on untrue statements\u201d and \u201cdemonstrates a distinct lack of respect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past decade, the U.S. government has spent more than a quarter-million dollars on contracts with Kaspersky, according to federal data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaspersky\u2019s servers are based in Russia, according to court filings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t a software vulnerability, but a systemic vulnerability based on what I call \u2019access,\u2019\u201d said Matthew Shabat, a former Department of Homeland Security official, adding the anti-virus software requires accessed privilege.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe kicker was a concern that the Russian government had access to Kaspersky Labs through its people and a law that provides it with vast power to access information traversing Russian networks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shabat, who now works for the security firm Glasswall, added that Kaspersky software has been used as a component of other programs inside the federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On October 1, use of Kaspersky products will be banned inside the federal government. 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