WHOA US Treasury Dept just sanctioned leadership at 🇷🇺Russian #antivirus company #kaspersky.
Comes on heels of yesterday's Commerce Dept. ban on sales of their antivirus to the US.
Huge-but-somewhat-anticipated blow to #Kaspersky whose fortunes in the US have been falling since the 2017 DHS binding directive to remove their products from gov systems.
Fascinating to see if other governments echo some of these actions.
4/ Maybe you sort of trust the company that makes your antivirus to not be quietly taking copies of your sensitive project files for a foreign intelligence service.
Well, here's the thing, the kind of access that #antivirus gets to your system combined with the need to run checks against files means that it has a really juicy surface for attack.
Hence the stream of research pointing out the many, many ways that popular antivirus products can be exploited.
@jsrailton kaspersky is trusted brand for securing PCs for years and having large user base in the US however in war time you can't trust your enemies to secure you!
The constant #disinfo sown by VPN and #AV providers is so rampant that I'd not be surprised if one day both would finally be made illegal for all the right reasons:
It should be the sole responsibility of the OS/Distro maintainers to make them.secure by default, espechally on #iOS and #Android where users don't have administrative / #root privilegues!