The malware consisted of a full-blown backdoor which could have allowed other third-parties to access the user’s machine. The user was infected with this malware for an unspecified period while the Kaspersky Lab product was inactive. The illegal activation tool contained within the Office ISO was infected with malware.To install the pirate copy of Office 2013, the user appears to have disabled the Kaspersky Lab product on their computer, because executing the illegal activator tool would not have been possible with the antivirus enabled.Sometime after this, the user seems to have downloaded and installed pirated software on their machine, specifically a Microsoft Office ISO file and an illegal Microsoft Office 2013 activation tool (aka “keygen”).On September 11, 2014, a Kaspersky Lab product installed on the computer of a U.S.-based user reported an infection of what appeared to be variants of malware used by the Equation APT group– a sophisticated cyber threat actor whose activity had already been under active investigation since March 2014.

Kaspersky Labs published these initial findings on 25 October : Read : Eugene Kaspersky On The Cyberspace Survival Guide They have also recently announced their Global Transparency Initiative to combat the perception that they are helping the Russian government attack Western interests. After the incident was first reported in the Wall Street Journal, Kaspersky Lab launched an internal investigation. Kaspersky Lab can’t seem to get ahead of the bad publicity over the alleged downloading of NSA hacking tools from an NSA employee’s home computer. Their update provides new insights into the hack, including their new findings on the Mokes backdoor used to gain access to the infected computer. Kaspersky Lab just issued an update on their internal investigation into the alleged downloading of NSA hacking tools by Russian hackers, and their own team.

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