The Situation

As the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to spread, the German government’s cyber authority, BSI, has issued a warning to citizens and governments, advising them to stop using antivirus products produced by Kaspersky, a global cybersecurity company owned by Eugene Kaspersky, a Russian national. Separately, here in the US, the FCC took the significant step of declaring Kaspersky a national security threat. Kaspersky is the first cybersecurity firm to be labeled as such.