Leaked Kaspersky Emails Show CEO's Disdain Towards Rivals AVG

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Two weeks ago, two former employees came out in the media, revealing the involvement of Kaspersky Labs in an operation that spread false malware to competing anti-virus firms.

Now, Reuters is reporting that Eugene Kaspersky, the company's CEO, had a general hatred for AVG, one of its competitors.

Leaked emails from 2009 show that Kaspersky's CEO had a clear intention of running a shadow project that would imply spreading false positives amongst its competition, and more precisely AVG.

 

[Tony Cole]

That's disgusting, this could seriously damage Kaspersky, and Kaspersky's flagship reputation. They say it's easy going up, but hard coming down. I wonder if others have done this, and why avg?

 

[Entreri]

There appears to be a war going on among various security vendors for market share. Several companies evidently copied Kaspersky detection tech.

"Kaspersky Lab did this to protect itself from more piracy, the Chinese expert said, adding that the campaign worked. "All of a sudden, customers came to Kaspersky."

Jiangmin's general manager declined to comment on the allegations that the company copied Kaspersky Lab's detections. He also declined to comment on whether Jiangmin had suffered from false detections during the period in question.

Kaspersky Lab has previously said that it too had been hit with fake virus samples. It declined to provide copies of the samples or give other details."