Other governments around the world have taken varying degrees of action against Kaspersky and other Russian tech vendors. It is the only Russian company on the list, which is dominated by Chinese telecommunications firms such as Huawei. Kaspersky was placed on a list of companies deemed a threat to US national security by the Federal Communications Commission in March. But the investigation has made little progress, leading to officials from the White House and other branches of the US government to urge the department to prioritise the probe, Reuters said. Kaspersky has been under investigation by the US Commerce Department since last year due to its connections to Russia. Why is the US government probing Kaspersky? Kaspersky says it is a privately managed company with no ties to the Russian government. The heightened fears of Russian cyberattacks after its invasion of Ukraine led to the White House intervening, the sources said. The US government hastened a national security probe into Kaspersky earlier this year, Reuters reported this week, citing three sources with knowledge of the investigation.

(Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr./Bloomberg via Getty Images) Moscow-based Kaspersky is under scrutiny from the US government. Whether Kaspersky ends up being banned from the US entirely remains to be seen, but security researchers say there is no evidence the company has ever bowed to pressure to assist intelligence services in the Kremlin. While government agencies across the Atlantic are already banned from using Kaspersky, critical national infrastructure providers and private companies are not.

The US government ramped up an investigation into Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky Lab as the war in Ukraine escalated, it has been revealed.

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