Kaspersky is one of the private sector companies that founded NoMoreRansom, and it has helped Europol in several major cybercrime investigations, including a $1 billion cyber-heist.
In response, Kaspersky Lab’s founder and CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, said his company would be freezing collaboration with Europol and the NoMoreRansom project, and highlighted that the EU’s decision “welcomes cybercrime in Europe.” The resolution was approved with 476 votes in favor and 151 against. The next-to-last proposal in the report “Calls on the EU to perform a comprehensive review of software, IT and communications equipment and infrastructure used in the institutions in order to exclude potentially dangerous programmes and devices, and to ban the ones that have been confirmed as malicious, such as Kaspersky Lab.” The call for a ban on Kaspersky’s products in the European Union is part of a report on cyber defense written by Estonian MEP Urmas Paet of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Kaspersky is not trusted by some governments due to its alleged ties to Russian intelligence, which has sparked concerns that the company may be spying for Moscow. Kaspersky Lab has suspended its collaboration with Europol and the NoMoreRansom initiative after the European Parliament passed a resolution that describes the company’s software as being “malicious.”
Kaspersky Suspends Collaboration With Europol and NoMoreRansom
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