This Friday, the United States sanctioned twelve people from the management of the company Kaspersky Lab, based in Russiaa day after announcing the ban on the sale of this company’s antivirus programs in the United States, alleging risks to national security.
“Today’s action against the management of Kaspersky Lab underscores our commitment to ensuring the integrity of our cyber domain and protecting our citizens against threats“Treasury Department Undersecretary for Terrorism Brian Nelson said in a statement.
Under this new order, all properties and assets in the United States of those sanctioned are blocked and financial transactions with them are prohibited.
The Treasury Department sanctions were announced a day after the Commerce Department announced a ban on the sale of Russian antivirus Kaspersky for this company’s links with the Kremlin.
In statements to the press, US Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, warned of the risk of using Kaspersky products due to Moscow’s influence on that company, and because some of its clients in the US are suppliers. critical infrastructure and local and state governments.
“Russia has demonstrated that it has the ability and intent to exploit Russian companies like Kaspersky to collect and weaponize Americans’ personal information.Raimondo said.
“Unfair competition”
The Kremlin called this Friday “unfair competition” the decision of the United States. “It is the favorite resource, the favorite resource of unfair and dishonest competition by the United States. They always turn to him”Russian Presidency spokesman Dmitri Peskov told the press.
He highlighted that Kaspersky Lab is a very competitive company in the cybersecurity sector at an international level and ““It surpasses its competitors in many aspects.”
Kaspersky Lab warned that the US ban will cause a “increase in cybercrime”.
“To effectively counter cyber threats, international cooperation between cybersecurity experts is necessary, but this is now limited“, the company stated in a statement.
Source: Gestion
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