Kaspersky Lab has suffered a real setback, the Russian company that develops antivirus products, as the European Union approves a motion that could prohibit this company's products in its institutions.
The document approved on Wednesday, 13 in June, by a large majority, mainly refers to cyber defense, stating that 'the EU and Member States face an unprecedented threat in the form of politically motivated and state-sponsored cyberattacks'.
The motion approved in a plenary session of the European Parliament calls on the European Union to do the following:
'It calls on the Union to carry out a thorough review of programs', the IT and communication equipment and infrastructures used in institutions, in order to exclude potentially dangerous programs and devices and to prohibit those that have been confirmed as malicious, such as those from Kaspersky Lab.
in this way, the motion follows the example of the Dutch government, which last month announced plans to gradually phase out the use of Kaspersky products. The United Kingdom and the United States have also already taken steps to remove Kaspersky from government departments due to suspicions of Russian state involvement in the software, something the company itself has strived to deny.
Desde Europa se declara que el software ha sido “confirmado como malicioso” y se exige una revisión de todos los equipos que puedan estar utilizando los productos de Kaspersky.
La respuesta de Eugene Kaspersky a estas acusaciones ha sido contundente y vía The Register ha declarado lo siguiente:
“Esta decisión del Parlamento Europeo acoge con satisfacción la ciberdelincuencia en Europa. No deseo hacer nada para seguir fomentando la balcanización de Internet, pero creo que la decisión que se ha tomado en Europa no me deja otra opción que tomar medidas definitivas. Kaspersky Lab sólo ha intentado librar al mundo de la ciberdelincuencia. Hemos demostrado una y otra vez que revelamos amenazas cibernéticas independientemente de su origen y autor, incluso en nuestro propio perjuicio. Se trata de un revés para la lucha contra la ciberdelincuencia, pero no nos desanimamos en nuestra misión: salvar al mundo de la ciberdelincuencia.”