Following the Biden administration's restriction on the sales and distribution of its software, Russian antivirus company Kaspersky is leaving the United States. Kaspersky announced that it will start to wind down operations on July 20, 2024, citing "no longer viable business opportunities in the country." The ban stops Kaspersky from upgrading or selling its products in the US, citing threats to US infrastructure.
The US wing of the company’s unit had already ceased its operations of selling the antivirus software, with a message saying “purchase is unavailable for US customers”.
The US Commerce Department, in an official statement, said “Kaspersky will generally no longer be able to, among other activities, sell its software within the United States or provide updates to software already in use.”
Such bans are instigating the turf war between the US and Russia which is escalating with every exit. Another company which is in the radar of the Biden administration is social media app TikTok.
Kaspersky was founded in 1997 in Russia by Eugene Kaspersky. The ace antivirus company boasts over 400 million product users, and remains one of the few IT companies of Moscow to have been successful internationally.
Kaspersky has denied all the allegations leveled by the US administration and said that the government took the decision based upon the “geopolitical climate and theoretical concerns” instead of independently verifying it.
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