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More seriously, Eugene flags his company’s 2016 discovery of “Project Sauron” malware as potentially being behind his company’s rough ride in the US media. https://securelist.com/publications/75533/faq-the-projectsauron-apt …

Eugene claims that negative press tends to follow significant Kaspersky discoveries: Flame, Stuxnet, etc. He speculated that his company must have recently done “something that made someone very, very disappointed.”

Any questions for Eugene you’d like me to ask?

Kaspersky shrugged off USG ban - “we have almost zero contracts” with USG, he notes - but says that the media “noise” was hurting. North America revenue projected to fall 5 to 8 percent.

Now Eugene asks the audience a question, tells journalists that if they find out who’s behind the whispering campaign against him “please tell me. I am very very curious of the reasons for this attack.”

Might be of interest to @ericgeller, @emptywheel, @Bing_Chris, @kevincollier