Patrick Wardle, a former NSA hacker, demonstrated how antivirus software can be used to search for classified documents. Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus program can be tweaked to automatically scan the victims machine and steal classified documents, he said. In December, US President Donald Trump signed a bill that bans the use of antivirus products and services in federal agencies. A draft of a top-secret report leaked by Edward J. Snowden revealed that the NSA at least since 2008 was targeting antivirus programs to collect sensitive information stored in the target machines.”]
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