That kind of conspiracy is just too fragile to be believable. While the opsec of such coersion operation with a company full of unpatriotic foreigners sounds li

That kind of conspiracy is just too fragile to be believable. While the opsec of such coersion operation with a company full of unpatriotic foreigners sounds like an absolute nightmare, it's also much much safer and much easier to build your APT attack vector not be caught by your targets' AV solution. Kaspersky is also much easier to control than most AV vendors, Eugene has often been quite positive about Russia spying on its citizens more aggressively than the US does, and he has deep connections with other powerful people of Russia.