MOSCOW. Nov 11 (Interfax) - Western security services use hidden malicious functions and vulnerabilities of software, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.
"Hidden malicious functions and software vulnerabilities are installed and used in IT products to serve the interests of Western security services," Patrushev said in his article in the newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
"There has been often disregard for the states' sovereign rights to developing their own technological basis for the critical information infrastructure, including in the name of increasing the digital potential of developing countries, and to managing their national segments of the Internet," Patrushev said.