Kaspersky's sales hit by Russian hacking controversy, says CEO

Washington

EUGENE Kaspersky told Reuters last Friday that the Moscow-based cyber security firm that bears his name would see a "single-digit" drop in US sales this year as a result of suspicions about his company's ties to the Russian government, but its global revenue should still increase.

By turns frustrated and defiant in an 80-minute interview in his Moscow office, the founder and head of the embattled antivirus software maker denounced what he called an "information war" against his company, repeatedly asserting that "we've done nothing wrong".