It’s unclear what happened in the reported theft of NSA data by Russian spies, but an attacker would need little help to steal if he or she had privileged access to an AV vendor’s network, security experts say.
With Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab under the gun for its software reportedly helping Russian cyberspies steal classified US data, some security experts say the same sort of theft the company is alleged to have enabled could have been pulled off using any other antivirus software, and without any vendor participation.
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