![]() "I wouldn't put their stuff on my computer if you paid me," said a former senior U.S. Kaspersky Lab has sought to raise its American profile with corporate sponsorships, including of National Public Radio. Kaspersky sells cyber-security software to businesses and the government in the U.S., although intelligence officials have warned for years that the company has ties to Russia. Kaspersky Lab paid former national security adviser Michael Flynn $11,250 in 2015 for cyber-security consulting, according to public documents, but that was not a focus of the FBI questioning, multiple sources said. Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP - Getty Images file An employee walks behind a glass wall at Kaspersky headquarters in Moscow, October 2016. He graduated in 1987 from the Soviet KGB-backed Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications, and Computer Science. Its cyber-security software is widely used in the United States, and its billionaire owner, Eugene Kaspersky, has close ties to some Russian intelligence figures, according to U.S. Kaspersky has long been of interest to the U.S. There is no indication at this time that the inquiry is part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling and possible collusion. In a classic FBI investigative tactic, agents visited the homes of the employees at the end of the work day at multiple locations on both the east and west coasts, the sources said. ![]()
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