Kaspersky was a long accused to support Russian intelligence in cyber espionage activities and for this reason, its products have been banned by the US Government and EU Parliament. The company denied any involvement with operations conducted by the Russian intelligence and recently opened it Transparency Center in Zurich to assure the integrity and trustworthiness of its products. In an ironic turn, source now revealed it helped to catch alleged NSA data thief Harold Thomas Martin. Martin sent strange Twitter messages to two researchers of the firm in 2016, minutes before The Shadow Brokers began leaking the NSA dump online.”]
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/79700/hacking/kaspersky-helped-nsa.html