Kaspersky's VPN and password manager went dark for days worldwide — and the timing has raised awkward questions about Russia's drone-hit data centers

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  • Kaspersky's VPN, Password Manager, Safe Kids, and My Kaspersky portal failed worldwide from October 11 to roughly October 14
  • The outage began hours after Ukrainian drones shut down Yandex's Vladimir data center, but no technical link has been shown between the two
  • A viral post calling Kaspersky "practically dead" was wrong on database updates, lost passwords, and its Europe-only framing - the effect was global and temporary

Kaspersky customers worldwide recently spent several days unable to use the company's VPN, Password Manager, Safe Kids parental controls, or My Kaspersky account portal, after an outage began within hours of Ukrainian drones forcing a third Yandex data center offline.

The company has blamed technical issues and has not named an underlying cause - but the overlap with the strikes on Russia's biggest tech firm has been hard for users to ignore.

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