Kaspersky is the only major company that actually investigates and reports on US and five eyes hacking ops, they've burned many over the years. Something media's not mentioning in these articles, but definitely a factor in this ban.
Just last year they burned NSA tooling targeting iphones:
securelist.com/operation-triangulation/109842/
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2024-06-21 05:20:05Event JSON
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