Re: Further sanctions
"It is not sanctions. It is treating the other side as an adversary which UK never ever stopped."
Nations do not have allies or adversaries. They have interests - Dr Kissinger pointed that out 45 years ago and anyone (or nation) which loses sight of that fundamental truth is bound to have a bad time sooner or later.
Just as the USA spies on everyone in the EU, do you really think that the UK isn't also doing it? Especially to the USA?
The fundamental issue is that Kaspersky detected malware on a PC - which is correct as it was malware. That malware was in a zip, so the zip was uploaded for analysis - which is only done if the user has explicitly opted into that facility. The zip happened to contain the source code for the malware.
The fact that the malware was written by the NSA and was illegally taken out of the faciility by someone who should know better makes no difference to the fact that the software was WORKING AS DESIGNED.
As for how the Russian govt got hold of it: Probably the same way that the NSA and GCHQ do - with massive snoop farms. I'm willing to bet that the suspect file uploads weren't done over https, nor were the files encrypted first using 2-key crypto (Something I bet Kaspersky is now doing)
One may suspect that the GCHQ directive is a tacit admission that they're also in the business of writing targetted malware.