A thorough investigation has also uncovered no indication any of the material was accessed by hackers during the brief time it was stored on the company's network. Kaspersky Lab said it never provided the documents to anyone outside the company. Assuming that the markings were real, such information cannot and will not consumed even to produce detection signatures based on descriptions." "We don’t need anything other than malware binaries to improve protection of our customers and secondly, because of concerns regarding the handling of potential classified materials. "The reason we deleted those files and will delete similar ones in the future is two-fold," Kaspersky Lab officials wrote in Thursday's report. The company then created a special software tweak to prevent the 7-Zip file from being downloaded again. Within a few days and at the direction of CEO and founder Eugene Kaspersky, the company deleted all materials except for the malicious binaries. A company analyst who manually reviewed the archive quickly determined it contained confidential material.
The downloads-which, like other AV software, the Kaspersky program automatically initiated when it encountered suspicious software that warranted further inspection-included a 45MB 7-Zip archive that contained source code, malicious executables, and four documents bearing US government classification markings.
Starting on Septemand running until November 9 of that year, Kaspersky Lab servers downloaded the confidential files multiple times after the company's antivirus software, which was installed on the machine, found they contained malicious code from Equation Group, an NSA-linked hacking group that operated for at least 14 years before Kaspersky exposed it in 2015. Further Reading How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years-and were found at lastThe classified source code, documents, and executable binaries were stored on a computer that used an IP address reserved for Verizon FIOS customers in Baltimore, about 20 miles from the NSA's Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters, Kaspersky Lab said in an investigation report it published early Thursday morning.
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