[Const-me]

Do you have some facts or reasonable suspicions about western AV companies collaborating with NSA? What I’ve heard they aren’t collaborating, NSA is researching AV vulnerabilities just like bad guys do.

Besides, Russia considers themselves at the state of “hybrid war” against the whole world. It sounds insane but apparently that’s what their government believes, and that’s what their propaganda broadcasts. That’s why an AV product made by a Russian state controlled company carries some unique risks.

Since mid-December, a high-ranking Kaspersky manager, Ruslan Stoyanov, is in jail for high treason. Do you know what kind of deal KGB wants from him? I don’t.

[ivan_gammel]

There are rumors that he's in jail for association with "Shaltai Boltai" hacker group, which published emails of D.Medvedev. Same for FSB officer, who supposedly worked with Stoyanov.

[Const-me]

I’ve heard other rumors. I’ve heard he’s in jail because he failed to secure their systems from Ukrainian hackers and 1GB of confidential data was leaked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surkov_leaks

But just hearing rumors doesn’t mean we know anything.