“Asked what evidence the government found to support concerns that the Russian government is using Kaspersky software to spy on customers, Raimondo and other government officials on the call declined to provide specifics.”
Commerce will ban new Kaspersky sales on July 20 and cut off signature updates on September 29. Antivirus without fresh signatures rots on the machine, so customers who don’t switch get slowly worse protection. The government calls its investigation “extremely thorough” and won’t say what it found. Its best answer on spying was that Russia uses “whatever resources available.”