Kaspersky to kill its VPN service in Russia next week By Bill Toulas November 10, 2022 12:42 PM https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kaspersky-to-kill-its-vpn-service-in-russia-next-week/ "Kaspersky is stopping the operation and sales of its VPN product, Kaspersky Secure Connection, in the Russian Federation, with the free version to be suspended as early as November 15, 2022." ... "There are few trustworthy legal VPN alternatives left for Russians to choose from. The country's telecommunications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, announced VPN bans in June 2021 and then again in December 2021, prohibiting the use of NordVPN, Express VPN, ProtonVPN, VyprVPN, Opera VPN, PrivateTunnel, and others. The reason for banning 15 VPNs in the country was because their vendors refused to connect their services to the FGIS database, which would apply government-imposed censorship in VPN connections, and would also make user traffic and identity subject to state scrutiny." [Poster's note: In early reports of these bans it was stated that Kaspersky was the only VPN provider to agree to this government connection at that time. So it was allowed to continue its Russian operations.] Kaspersky Is Shutting Down Its VPN Service in Russia By Matthew Humphries November 11, 2022 https://www.pcmag.com/news/kaspersky-is-shutting-down-its-vpn-service-in-russia Kasperksy to pull VPN services from Russia Damien Black Senior Journalist Updated on: 11 November 2022 https://cybernews.com/news/kasperksy-to-pull-vpn-services-from-russia/ Kaspersky Lab to shut down VPN app in Russia November 15, 2022 Grant Parks https://www.foreignbrief.com/daily-news/kaspersky-lab-to-shut-down-vpn-app-in-russia/
