One of the real talk purposes of 2017 was Russian programmers, who were engaged with leaks of John Podesta messages to hacking the presidential elections. It now appears, as a few noteworthy news outlets have announced, that these programmers may have been spying PCs over the globe, for secret data utilizing antivirus programming, particularly Kaspersky.

No one has ever thought of this type of cybercrime:

In October 2017, Israeli government operatives hacked into Kaspersky's backend systems and found that the Russians has been spying quietly. Recently the United States government offices, particularly the Department of Homeland Security, issued orders forbidding the utilization of antivirus programming from elected PC systems. New York Times calls points to this is based, in substantial part, on knowledge shared by Israeli insight authorities.

But, yes Kaspersky denied the allegation and even sued the Trump organization, asserting in an open letter composed by author and CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, that "D.H.S. has hurt Kaspersky Lab's notoriety and its business operations with no confirmation of wrongdoing by the organization."

Additionally, to overcome this and to win back the trust, in October, Kaspersky Lab launched a program termed as “global transparency initiative”.

Be that as it may, things have taken another turn as a previous NSA programmer Patrick Wardle prevailing in figuring out Kaspersky's antivirus programming and transformed it into a capable look apparatus for ordered reports.

This brings up more issues about the reliability of antivirus programming, particularly ones situated in Eastern Europe, for example, Dr. Web and Kaspersky from Russia, Avast and AVG from the Czech Republic, and Bitdefender from Romania.

After doing research on the same, some companies came into notice that these antivirus software’s runs very close to the bare metal of the system through which one can access almost every file, application, programs, browsers etc.

For a long time, organizations speculated that Kaspersky Lab's security items gave a secondary passage to Russian insight. Moreover, a draft of the exceedingly secret report leaked by Edward Snowden in 2008 bring up that "Kaspersky's product gathered delicate data of clients' machines."

Rising average per capita cost of data breach is a major factor propelling investments by the private companies to strengthen their network security and Cyber security market is now one of the fastest growing markets in the global IT security sector.

But the question arises, how these antivirus software’s are transforming into spy tools?

Earlier the antivirus engines, by using a simple scanning logic, scans the patterns while today’s modern antivirus software’s uses more complex scanning logic patterns. Present day antivirus is made from both basic scanning pattern signatures and executable code, that permits the antivirus item to contain significantly more intense and complex identification logic.

It is unusual for Kaspersky Lab to convey a mark or refresh to just a single client in a mystery, directed manner since all marks are transparently accessible to all the clients and updates are carefully marked, additionally making it difficult to counterfeit an update. Well, no one has ever think of these type of crimes, and clearly, it’s a big cybercrime.

This is the reason why Cyber Security has become one of the fastest growing market in global IoT security sector. Implementation of stringent government regulations along with augmented government as well as private sector spending towards ensuring cyber security and developing skilled human resources is fuelling the adoption of advanced cyber security solutions such as Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW), Unified Threat Management, Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention System, Security Information & Event Management, etc., globally.

                                                                                                                                                                                    Source: Identity Theft Resource Centre

According to TechSci Research report “Global Cyber Security Market By Security Type, By Solutions, By End Use Industry, By Region, Competition Forecast and Opportunities, 2011-2021”, global market for cyber security is projected to surpass US$ 137 billion by 2021.

Growing trend of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), rising adoption of cloud computing, expanding market for Internet of Things (IoT) are expected to continue driving the cyber security market across the globe over the next five years.