Over the weekend, Google eliminated Kaspersky’s Android safety apps from the Google Play retailer and disabled the Russian firm’s developer accounts.
The search large has but to supply a motive for this transfer and didn’t promote this transfer in any approach.
Nonetheless, customers have been reporting over the past week that Kaspersky’s merchandise (together with Kaspersky Endpoint Safety and VPN & Antivirus by Kaspersky) are now not out there on Google Play in the USA and different world areas.
Kaspersky confirmed the difficulty on the corporate’s official boards on Sunday and stated that it is at present investigating why its software program is now not out there on Google’s app retailer.
“The downloads and updates of Kaspersky products are temporarily unavailable on the Google Play store,” a Kaspersky worker stated.
“Kaspersky is currently investigating the circumstances behind the issue and exploring potential solutions to ensure that users of its products can continue downloading and updating their applications from Google Play.”
Whereas the apps are unavailable, Kaspersky suggested customers to put in them from different app shops, together with the Galaxy Retailer, Huawei AppGallery, and Xiaomi GetApps. The corporate’s safety apps can be put in by downloading the .apk set up file from Kaspersky’s web site.
This assist web page supplies extra data on find out how to set up and activate Kaspersky’s software program on Android gadgets.
This comes after Kaspersky advised BleepingComputer in July that it could shut down its United States operations after the U.S. authorities sanctioned the corporate and 12 executives and banned Kaspersky antivirus software program over nationwide safety issues in June.
In September, the Russian multinational cybersecurity firm deleted its anti-malware software program from prospects’ computer systems throughout the USA and changed it with UltraAV’s antivirus resolution with out informing its prospects or asking for permission.
When contacted by BleepingComputer earlier immediately, a Google spokesperson was not instantly out there to touch upon why Kaspersky’s Android apps had been faraway from the Google Play retailer.
