The hot news this week is that Kaspersky is banned in the USA. More specifically, Kaspersky products will be banned from sale in the US starting on September 29. This ban will extend to blocking software updates, though it’s unclear how that will actually be accomplished. It’s reasonable to assume that payment processors will block payments to Kaspersky, but will ISPs be required to block traffic that could contain antivirus updates?
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/06/28/this-week-in-security-kaspersky-ban-project-naptime-and-more/