43 Facts About Kaspersky Lab

Kaspersky Lab develops and sells antivirus, internet security, password management, endpoint security, and other cybersecurity products and services.

Kaspersky Lab is ranked 4th in Endpoint Security segment according to IDC data for 2010.

In 2012 Kaspersky Lab was named a "Leader" in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms.

Kaspersky Lab has faced controversy over allegations that it has engaged with the Russian Federal Security Service —ties which the company has actively denied.

Kaspersky Lab denied the allegations, reporting that the software had detected Equation Group malware samples which it uploaded to its servers for analysis in its normal course of operation.

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Kaspersky Lab has since announced commitments to increased accountability, such as soliciting independent reviews and verification of its software's source code, and announcing that it would migrate some of its core infrastructure for foreign customers from Russia to Switzerland.

In November 2020 Kaspersky Lab finished relocating the data of its customers from Russia to Switzerland.

Kaspersky Lab has opened multiple transparency centers in Switzerland, Brazil, Canada, Spain and Malaysia which allow state agencies, government experts and regulators to review its source code.

Kaspersky Lab continued developing the software at KAMI, resulting in the AntiViral Toolkit Pro product released in 1992.

Kaspersky Lab's revenue grew 280 percent from 1998 to 2000, with about 60 percent of its revenue coming from foreign sales.

Kaspersky Lab opened new offices in South East Asia and the Middle East in 2008 and in South Africa in 2009.

In 2014, Kaspersky Lab signed a distribution deal with Ingram Micro, which significantly expanded its reseller program.

On his personal blog, Eugene Kaspersky Lab compared the accusations to unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.

Kaspersky Lab develops and markets antivirus, internet security, password management, endpoint security, and other cybersecurity products and services.

Kaspersky Lab develops a free tool that helps businesses gain access to Windows devices that are infected by ransomware.

Kaspersky Lab has a number of partnerships with various technology companies.

Kaspersky Lab was a long term partner of Scuderia Ferrari and in December 2021, had announced a partnership extension with the Formula One team, and became the team's esports partner.

Kaspersky Lab has passed most of Virus Bulletin comparative tests since August 2003.

Later in 2013, Kaspersky earned the product of the year award from AV-Comparatives and the highest score among Enterprise solutions in a Dennis Technology Labs report.

Kaspersky Lab has received certification of its products through the OESIS OK Certification Program, which verifies that the applications are interoperable with third-party technology solutions like NAC and SSL VPN products from Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, F5 Networks, and others.

In 2022 March Kaspersky Lab received a cyber immunity registration trademark in the United States.

Kaspersky Lab is especially well-known for its work uncovering Stuxnet and Flame.

In 2010, Kaspersky Lab worked with Microsoft to counter-act the Stuxnet worm, which had infected 14 industrial locations in Iran using four zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows.

In May 2012, Kaspersky Lab identified the malware Flame, which a researcher described as potentially "the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet unleashed".

Kaspersky Lab never verified the source of the software, but it is suspected to have been developed by the National Security Agency to transmit keystrokes, Skype calls and other data.

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In January 2013, Kaspersky Lab discovered the Red October malware, which had been used for widespread cyber-espionage for five years.

Kaspersky Lab did not identify who was behind it, but it was similar to other cyber-espionage coming from Beijing, China.

Later that same year, Kaspersky Lab discovered a hacker group it called Icefog after investigating a cybersecurity attack on a Japanese television company.

Kaspersky Lab said the hacker group, possibly from China, was unique in that they targeted specific files they seemed to know about before planting malware to extract them.

In February 2014, Kaspersky Lab identified the malware Mask, which infected 380 organizations in 31 countries.

In November 2014, Symantec and Kaspersky Lab authored papers that contained the first disclosure of malicious software named Regin.

That same month Kaspersky Lab reported on the Darkhotel attack, which targeted users of wireless networks at hotels in Asia.

In 2015, Kaspersky Lab identified a highly sophisticated threat actor that it called "The Equation Group".

That same day, Kaspersky Lab announced the discovery of a hacker group it called Carbanak, which was targeting banks and moving millions of dollars into fake accounts.

In June 2015, Kaspersky Lab reported that its own network had been infiltrated by government-sponsored malware.

In 2016, Kaspersky Lab discovered a zero day vulnerability in Microsoft Silverlight.

Kaspersky Lab identified a string of code often used by exploits created by the suspected author.

In 2016, Kaspersky Lab uncovered the Poseidon Group, which would infiltrate corporations with malware using phishing emails, then get hired by the same company as a security firm to correct the problem.

In June 2016 Kaspersky Lab helped uncover a Russian hacking group, leading to 50 arrests.

In 2019, Kaspersky Lab uncovered Titanium, a very advanced and insidious backdoor malware APT, developed by PLATINUM, a cybercrime collective.

Since 2015, Kaspersky Lab was alleged to have close ties to the Russian government by various western media outlets, and finally the US government itself.

In 2022, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the US government warned American businesses that the risk of using Kaspersky software had increased and the FCC added Kaspersky to its list of threats to U S national security.

Kaspersky Lab responded to the FCC's move in a press release on its website, saying that the agency's decision was “made on political grounds” in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and that the company “remains ready to cooperate with US government agencies to address the FCC's and any other regulatory agency's concerns.