With Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab under the gun for its software reportedly helping Russian cyberspies steal classified US data, some security experts say the same sort of theft the company is alleged to have enabled could have been pulled off using any other antivirus software, and without any vendor participation. The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday cited knowledgeable sources as saying that Kaspersky Lab actively modified its anti-virus system so Russian agents could use it as a tool to search through and steal from computers running the vendor’s software.

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