Apple’s excuse is poppycock. 10s of thousands of developers in the US use Jetbrains products in the US and pay for them routinely with their debit cards on subscription. Jetbrains is located in St Petersburg.

They should be sued, and also given that such sophisticated attacks are usually the domain of state sponsors, if they dont pay they can be assured that the next one wont be reported to them.

..or maybe thats the plan.