“We should be sceptical since the accusers are both anonymous and have an axe to grind against their former employer,” he said. When France 24 spoke to Jeffrey Carr, the American CEO of security firm Taia Global, he said he didn’t know if Reuters’ claims were true or false. Reuters sources claim Kaspersky told his researchers to attack rival AVG by “rubbing them out in the outhouse,” quoting Vladmir Putin’s threat to pursue Chechen rebels wherever.īut the allegations have failed to convince everyone in the industry. The alleged aim was to expose firms Kaspersky believed were using his technology instead of developing their own. The news agency Reuters says it has evidence Kaspersky Lab deliberately created fake, harmless viruses in 2009 to trick its competitors into deleting important files on their customers’ PCs. Today the Russian billionaire spends most of his working life on a global PR drive trying to convince governments, companies and individuals to trust him and his anti-virus software. His firm has impressed critics by revealing real cyber threats like the Equation Group, a highly sophisticated attack team it believes helped create the Stuxnet virus. By the time he was 24, he had created his first anti-virus software to protect his own computer.Įight years later he founded Kaspersky Lab, which is now one of the biggest anti-virus makers in the world, with 460 million users and 711 million euros in annual profit. At 16, he was selected to study cryptography at a school partially funded by the KGB. “To see him here as sweet as a lamb, well, that’s killed the myth.”Įugene Kaspersky is famous and feared in cyber circles. But instead it’s all salads and champagne,” said Canadian security expert Ben Marzouk. “I was expecting Eugene Kaspersky’s party to be all about red meat and vodka. Everyone else, bar the catering staff, knows exactly who he is. Little did she know he paid for the lavish networking-do at the 'Les Assises' cyber conference in Monaco.
A waitress has just told him off for picking up a carrot stick before the party has begun. Empty-handed, Eugene Kaspersky obediently backs away from the buffet.
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