New Government Ban on Kaspersky Would Prevent Company from Updating Malware Signatures in U.S.

The ban, using new powers granted to the U.S. Commerce Department, would prohibit the sale of Kaspersky software anywhere in the U.S. and would also prevent the company from distributing software security updates or malware signatures to customers in the U.S. According to one story, an NSA contractor developing offensive hacking tools for the spy agency had Kaspersky software installed on his home computer where he was developing the NSA tools, and the software detected the source code as malicious and extracted it from the computer, as antivirus software is designed to do.