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What It’s Like to Be Targeted by an (Alleged) Private Spy

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AP reported Wednesday that an undercover agent apparently working for Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab had targeted researcher Keir Giles. This is his side of the story.

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I bear no grudge against Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based cybersecurity company. I’ve only met Eugene Kaspersky, the firm’s founder, once, briefly, at a cybersecurity conference years ago.

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