Ephrat Livni reports:
The United States Department of Defense, the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security unsuspectingly bought about $2 million worth of software from a developer in Russia that also contracted with Russian security services, according to the Justice Department.
Two executives from Oxygen Forensics, a digital forensics software company based in Virginia, are accused of conspiring to commit wire fraud and concealing the true origins of the business and its products, federal prosecutors said in a statement on Wednesday.
The complaint does not accuse them of selling software that contained malicious code or that was used to gain unauthorized access to government systems, the Justice Department said. Still, the case has raised alarms among some experts in illicit finance, who say it highlights the lack of transparency around the ownership of private companies in the United States and the national security risks of that opacity.
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