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…