11, 2014, after it was automatically submitted due to KSN being enabled on the NSA worker’s computer.Īfter the detection, the NSA worker turned off Kaspersky Lab antivirus in order to install pirated software. The user is not identified as being an NSA worker, but numerous reports have described him as being part of the NSA hacking unit and that he had classified material on his home computer.Īccording to the preliminary results of Kaspersky Lab’s internal investigation, the Equation malware was first detected Sept. When an analyst alerted CEO Eugene Kaspersky that the file contained classified source code for a new hacking tool, the CEO said to immediately delete it. That is how Kaspersky ended up with the new sample of malware. The NSA worker, who had stored classified NSA materials on his home computer, ran a home version of Kaspersky Antivirus and had chosen to enable Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), which automatically uploads new and previously unknown malware. But that same user had been backdoored after installing a pirated version of Microsoft Office. While revealing the results of an internal investigation, Kaspersky Lab admitted it had uploaded classified NSA malware from a user’s computer in 2014.

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