The Ukraine war continues to cause problems for Kaspersky, a titan of the antivirus industry accused of having ties to Russian intelligence.

The group used six backdoors against more than a dozen industrial plants, research institutes and government agencies, according to Kaspersky.

Kaspersky is the first cybersecurity company and first Russian entity on the FCC's "Covered List," which so far has focused on China.

The Federal Office for Information Security, or BSI, did not accuse Kaspersky of any specific violations of customers' trust.

Getting "improved" features via modded software might come with security downgrades.

The malicious sdownloads range from relatively innocuous adware to password stealers and trojans.