content: No, the title is 100% accurate. Two former employees are claiming Kaspersky was trying to harm other companies. It's rather brilliant:  In one technique, Kaspersky's engineers would take an important piece of software commonly found in PCs and inject bad code into it so that the file looked like it was infected, the ex-employees said. They would send the doctored file anonymously to VirusTotal. Then, when competitors ran this doctored file through their virus detection engines, the file would be flagged as potentially malicious. If the doctored file looked close enough to the original, Kaspersky could fool rival companies into thinking the clean file was problematic as well.  So Kaspersky, according to the ex-employees, reverse-engineered their AV competitors, then fed them misinformation. This misinformation, because it was carefully engineered, caused Kaspersky's competitors' antiviruses to flag important software components as malicious. Thus, Kaspersky led their competitors to harm their own customers' machines, and Kaspersky wasn't implicated because it didn't have anything to do with the customers' machines.