A US company’s technology has been abused by the Indian government amid warnings Americans are contributing to a spyware industry that is already under attack for being out of control. Earlier this year, researchers from Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky witnessed a cyber espionage campaign targeting Microsoft Windows PCs at government and telecommunications facilities in China and Pakistan. It began in June 2020 and lasted until April 2021. What piqued the researchers’ interest was the digital spy hacking software Kaspersky Bitter called APT, a pseudonym for an unspecified government agency. Aspects of the code looked like some the Moscow antivirus had seen before and attributed to a company that gave it the cryptonym “Moses”. Moses, said Kaspersky, was a mysterious provider of …
