Kaspersky Antivirus Flaw Exposed Users to Cross-Site Tracking Online August 15, 2019 https://thehackernews.com/2019/08/kaspersky-antivirus-online-tracking.html
Kasper-Spy: Kaspersky Anti-Virus puts users at risk https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Kasper-Spy-Kaspersky-Anti-Virus-puts-users-at-risk-4496138.html
I don't think it was Kasperksy's intention. But that's why it's best not to mess around with URL scanning done by AV's or even extensions.
Agreed. I doubt this was intentional. There's also money to be made selling security software which as I have stated in the past you will not get if nobody trusts your product.
I heard a bug in Kaspersky products could be used for spying. Is that true? August 19, 2019 https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/tracking-ids-bug/27979/