You will hear the name Kaspersky when the SUBJECT of anti-virus software is the topic. You know that. By now the connections between Russia and the company is getting attention.
Eugene Kaspersky s a Russian cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab, an IT security company with 4,000 employees. He cofounded Kaspersky Lab in 1997 and helped identify instances of government-sponsored cyberwarfare as the head of research. He has been an advocate for an international treaty prohibiting cyberwarfare.

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Earlier this year somebody did a story about a possible link with the company to allegations that the Russian government is trying to use the Internet to do bad things. No proof givem.
Now it is a topic for the mass-media.

Now here is how this has become NEWS. The congress of the USA has a bill that almost names this company in a proposed software ban. It is just a bill, at this point. But it is in the news. Look at this link:
http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2017/06/senate-defense-bill-bans-russian-anti-virus-software-splits-cio-duties/139119/
headline:
Senate Defense Bill Bans Russian Anti-virus Software, Splits CIO Duties
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The provision barring Defense agencies from using Kaspersky anti-virus software is also absent from the House version of the bill. That provision cites “reports that the Moscow-based company might be vulnerable to Russian government influence.”

Numerous outlets have reported on anxiety within the government INTELLIGENCE and cybersecurity communities about the Moscow-based anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab, but the U.S. government has yet to make any firm allegations against the company.