I know this is just my $0.02, which I generally avoid... but:
I would be very skeptical of this entire article, having worked with researchers from Kaspersky for many years. They are terrific partners and care deeply about infosec.
Also, Kaspersky has been known in the past, which they have disclosed, for planting red herrings in malware archives, because they accused (and were right) of other vendors just looking at what Kaspersky blocks and just automatically copying it, without actually doing AV research. That's not what they are being accused of here...
Finally, Joseph is a great journalist, but this article stinks in terms of providing actual evidence.
I would be very skeptical of this entire article, having worked with researchers from Kaspersky for many years. They are terrific partners and care deeply about infosec.
Also, Kaspersky has been known in the past, which they have disclosed, for planting red herrings in malware archives, because they accused (and were right) of other vendors just looking at what Kaspersky blocks and just automatically copying it, without actually doing AV research. That's not what they are being accused of here...
Finally, Joseph is a great journalist, but this article stinks in terms of providing actual evidence.