A third source who still works at the company also told Motherboard that some Kaspersky employees were asked to resign after those employees asked to live and work somewhere else. In the wake of the invasion, at least two employees told Motherboard they asked to be relocated outside of Russia. “I’m sure the people at Kaspersky are feeling as though they did the right thing and it did them no good,” Baker told Politico.But the war is also affecting employees of another Russian tech giant, and one of the most well known and respected antivirus makers: Kaspersky. In terms of the company’s alleged role in Martin’s arrest, it seems the act has done little to regain U.S. Kaspersky has since attempted to distance itself from Russia, moving some of its key operations to Zurich from Moscow in May 2018. to label Kaspersky Lab a security threat. A few years later, Israeli hackers reportedly discovered Russian intelligence connections within the security software and notified U.S.
In 2012, however, relations grew tense when Kaspersky discovered covert spy operations on customer computers. intelligence community, disclosed to them that they had this problem,” said Baker.įor years, Kasperky Lab had worked with the U.S. “It’s irony piled on irony that people who worked at Kaspersky, who were already in the sights of the U.S. “We all thought got caught by renewed or heightened scrutiny, and instead it looks as though he got caught because he was an idiot,” Stewart Baker, a former general counsel for the NSA and current partner at Steptoe and Johnson, told Politico. The FBI then used the Twitter messages and evidence of the account’s user to obtain a search warrant for Martin’s home. Martin’s ultimate goal is unclear, but upon determining the true identity of HAL999999999, researchers reportedly tipped off the NSA and suggested an investigation. government deemed a security threat due to alleged connections to the Russian government-was actually the first to report Martin’s suspicious behavior.Īccording to Politico’s sources, Martin sent a number of cryptic Twitter messages to Kaspersky researchers under the account name “HAL999999999,” asking for a meeting with Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky, also known as Yevgeny Kaspersky.
Publicly available information previously indicated Martin was caught due to increased NSA oversight, but a new Politico report states Kaspersky Lab-a company the U.S. Harold Thomas Martin III was arrested in August 2016 and indicted the following year after an FBI raid discovered copies of classified information at Martin’s Maryland home.įacing 20 criminal charges, Martin could be responsible for the largest theft of classified government information in history.
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