The company had hit its peak between 2009 and 2013.
Eugene considered this stealing, said one of the former employees.
Such actions are unethical, dishonest and their legality is at least questionable.
It was decided to provide some problems for rivals, said one ex-employee.
It is not only damaging for a competing company but also damaging for users computers.
Hence, most of the campaign was carried out against Microsoft, AVG and Avast, reported Reuters.
Company researchers were assigned to work for weeks or months at a time on the sabotage projects.
It created 20 harmless files and submitted to VirusTotal asked them to consider them as malicious.
There were several waves of these samples, usually four times per year.
This crippled-sample generation lasted for about four years.
The last wave was received at the beginning of the year 2013, he told Reuters in April.
Kaspersky said it had also improved its algorithms to resist against false virus samples attacks.
After the article was released by Reuters, Kaspersky issued an official press release.
source: www.techworm.net
