Kaspersky Lab has repeatedly denied that it has ties to any government and said it would not help a government with cyber espionage.
About 15% of US government agencies have detected some trace of Russian company Kaspersky Lab's software on their systems in a review prompted by concerns the antivirus firm is vulnerable to Kremlin influence, a security official told Congress on Tuesday.
Jeanette Manfra, assistant secretary for cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said that 94% of agencies had responded to an order to survey their networks to identify any use of Kaspersky Lab products and to remove them.
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