Re: Pattern?
Makes you wonder how an NSA agent running state secret tools was allowed to work on them at home on an untrusted device running their own version of whatever software they wanted - in this case Kaspersky and not made to do any work using a completely locked down, may be even air-gapped machine or via an MFA VPN to remote in to a remote terminal to work.
Just seems like poor security, anything on that PC could have divulged secret information.