Reuters cited an experiment that Kaspersky first publicized in 2010, in which a German computer magazine created ten harmless files and told antivirus scanning service that Kaspersky detected them as malicious (Virustotal aggregates data on suspicious files and shares them with security companies). Such errors, known in the industry as “false positives,” can be quite costly, disruptive and embarrassing for antivirus vendors and their customers. The Reuters piece cited anonymous, former Kaspersky employees who said the company assigned staff to reverse-engineer competitors’ virus detection software to figure out how to fool those products into flagging good files as malicious. But according to interviews with the CEO of Dr.Web - Kaspersky’s main competitor in Russia - both companies experimented with ways to expose antivirus vendors who blindly accepted malware intelligence shared by rival firms. A recent Reuters story accusing Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab of faking malware to harm rivals prompted denials from the company’s eponymous chief executive - Eugene Kaspersky - who called the story “complete BS” and noted that his firm was a victim of such activity.
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