Register.UK: 'Israel hacked Kaspersky and caught Russian spies using AV tool to harvest NSA exploits'. October 10, 2017 by Garret Vreeland in Security, Internet In short, Kaspersky's code, installed on millions of computers around the planet, was being used as a global searchable spying tool by the Russian government, it is alleged. It also means, now that this has been splashed on the pages of the New York Times, that US intelligence insiders have blown the lid on details of a highly sensitive Israeli operation.