AVSoft (AV Soft)

AVSoft develops information security software.

History

2025: Comprehensive Email Protection in Enterprise Infrastructure

Email is still one of the key channels of communication in today's business. The task of ensuring the security of corporate mail traffic in banks, financial sector organizations, government agencies and large industrial companies is especially acute, where the volume of data processed and the level of cyber threats are much higher, and the consequences of hacking or encryption of systems can be critical.

In this article, we will present an analysis of modern threats associated with the use of e-mail, as well as offer an integrated protection approach based on software solutions of the AVSOFT ATHENA Targeted Attack Detection System and the AVSOFT KAIROS Phishing and Spam Protection System, which can be implemented as part of a single information security system. Read more here.

Criminal case on charges of stealing Kaspersky Lab technologies

Kaspersky Lab has accused a rival information security software developer, AVSoft, of illegally using its software modules to detect malicious code. On this fact, law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case, the press service of Kaspersky Lab reported in March 2025.

As TAdviser was told in Kaspersky Lab, in the fall of 2024 the company became aware of the illegal use of AVSoft software modules KLMS and KLFS in its own commercial products. After conducting an internal analysis that confirmed the fact of the violation, Kaspersky Lab appealed to law enforcement agencies at the end of 2024, after which a criminal case was initiated.

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Kaspersky Lab told TAdviser that law enforcement agencies are conducting investigative actions by March 2025, and the preliminary investigation has not yet been completed.

AB Soft LLC was registered in 2010. According to data from the RusProfile database, the sole owner of the company by April 2025 is Anton Pavlovich Chukhnov. According to the company's official website, AVSoft is developing seven projects of various directions, including the Bond corporate messenger, Kairos spam and phishing protection system, Veil operating system camouflage, Loki distributed false targets system, Crimlab computer forensic laboratory and Palitra corporate software management program. The company's flagship product is the Athena antivirus multiscaner.