The security company Kaspersky Lab has released a study in which they have measured the number of threats on the internet during the second quarter of this year. During this period, the company registered 540 million attempts to infect computers running any of Kaspersky Labs products.
The security firm halted the work after questions were asked in the European Parliament about its software.
Moscow-based AV provider challenges claims it helped Russian spies.
The activity was observed by Israeli intelligence officers two years ago, according to US media.