America’s Federal Communication Commission (FCC) claims that Kaspersky and China Mobile and China Telecom are threats to national security.
Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel saidUS law requires the commission to publish and maintain a list of communications equipment and services that pose an unacceptable risk to national security or the security and safety of US persons.
The FCC is not the first organisation to issue a warning about Kaspersky following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Earlier this month, Germany’s cybersecurity authority – the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) – issued a notice advising organisations that are using Kaspersky’s security products to find BSI-approved replacements.
Kaspersky’s CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, came under fire for a tweet in which he stopped short of criticising Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
