In an exclusive report by Reuters, Kaspersky the anti virus company has been accused by two former employees for releasing fake malwares into customers files and having competitor anti-virus label these malwares as dangerous. However a spokesperson for the Russian lab has come out denying the allegation.

The employees claimed that staffs of the company have been spreading these sort of malware for decades as a campaign to undermine competitors protection tools and in some cases orders came from the founder himself Eugene Kaspersky. Researchers from the company were directed to reverse engineer competitors software’s and how to trick them to identify good files as potential dangerous malwares.

Kaspersky went on this route due their claims that many malware tool providers were copying their software and incorporating into their own, accusing them of stealing.

If found to be true, this is not the first time, the anti virus software company had on previous occasion created fake malware labelling them dangerous, and found competitors copying Kaspersky tools and also identifying the malware as high risks without doing their own research.

Looks like once you become the king of the hill you start to get paranoid.