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It was a case of spies watching spies watching spies: Israeli intelligence officers looked on in real time as Russian government hackers searched computers around the world for the code names of American intelligence programs. What gave the Russian hacking, detected more than two years ago, such global reach was its improvised search tool — antivirus software made by a Russian company, Kaspersky Lab, that is used by 400 million people worldwide, including by officials at some two dozen American government agencies. The Israeli officials who had hacked into Kaspersky’s own network alerted the United States to the broad Russian...

Ivan Kaspersky, the son of the Kaspersky Lab founder, was reported kidnapped on April 21, as he walked to work in Moscow, Russia. Security forces were able to free him without paying the ransom demanded by the kidnappers, and nobody was reported injured during the operation. Of course, Eugene Kaspersky is Ivan's father, and the creator of the popular antivirus software under the family's name. Apparently, six people have been arrested in connection to the abduction, including five kidnappers and the mastermind behind the plot.