The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released a notice to confirm it has prohibited the use of any equipment that integrates Kaspersky cybersecurity or antivirus software. This comes months after the US banned the sale of Kaspersky products, which pushed the company to lay off all US workers and close all US based operations.
The US telecom regulator’s statement confirmed that Kaspersky has been added to the ‘Covered List’ of equipment and services which are determined to ‘pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the security and safety of United States persons’.
