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  • Report: Kaspersky developed malware to trip up competition

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    08.14.2015

    Reuters reports that a pair of former employees have accused Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs of building malware to trick its competition into flagging and quarantining important, non-viral, files on customers' computers. Basically the malware would inject malicious bits of code into important PC files -- like, say, your printer's .ini files -- which would then be flagged as a false positive and quarantined or deleted.