British spymasters fear that anti-virus software given away for free by Barclays to more than 2m customers may be being used as an intelligence-gathering tool by the Russian government.
A senior Whitehall official told the Financial Times that GCHQ, Britain’s digital surveillance agency, has harboured concerns for months over the distribution in the UK of software from Kaspersky Lab, one of the world’s most successful computer security companies.
GCHQ suspects that Kaspersky may have been exploited by the FSB, the successor organisation to the KGB, to snoop on sensitive foreign targets.
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