Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2022
German Federal Office for Information Security agency, also known as BSI, recommends consumers not to use Kaspersky anti-virus software. The German Federal Office for Information Security agency, aka BSI, recommends consumers uninstall Kaspersky anti-virus software. The Agency warns the cybersecurity firm could be implicated in hacking attacks during the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2021
Chinese military unit PLA Unit 61419 is suspected to be involved in cyber-espionage campaigns against multiple antivirus companies. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Recorded Future’s Insikt Group have discovered six procurement documents from official People’s Liberation Army (PLA) military websites and other sources that demonstrate that PLA Unit 61419 has sought to purchase antivirus solutions from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2020
Researchers disclosed details of security flaws in popular antivirus software that could allow threat actors to increase privileges. Security researchers from CyberArk Labs disclosed details of security vulnerabilities found in popular antivirus software that could be exploited by attackers to elevate their privileges on the target system. Antivirus solutions that are supposed to protect the systems from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2020
Security experts from RACK911 Labs discovered “symlink race” vulnerabilities in 28 of the most popular antivirus products. Security researchers from RACK911 Labs disclose the discovery of “symlink race” issues in 28 of the most popular antivirus products. The flaws affect 28 products running on major OSs, including Linux, Mac, and Windows. “A symlink race is a kind […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2019
Kaspersky has fixed several flaws affecting the web protection features implemented in some of its security products Kaspersky has addressed several vulnerabilities in the web protection features implemented in its antivirus solutions, including Internet Security, Total Security, Free Anti-Virus, Security Cloud, and Small Office Security products. The vulnerabilities were found by the security researcher Wladimir […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2019
Flaws in Avast, AVG, and Avira Antivirus could be exploited by an attacker to load a malicious DLL file to bypass defenses and escalate privileges. Security experts at SafeBreach Labs discovered flaws in Avast, AVG, and Avira Antivirus that could be exploited by an attacker to load a malicious DLL file to bypass defenses and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2019
Experts discovered several flaws in Comodo Antivirus, including a vulnerability that could allow to escape the sandbox and escalate privileges. The Tenable expert David Wells discovered five flaws in the Comodo Antivirus and Comodo Antivirus Advanced. Four of the vulnerabilities affect were version 12.0.0.6810 and one the version 11.0.0.6582. The most severe flaw, tracked as CVE=2019-3969, could […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2019
Antivirus solutions from different vendors are having malfunctions after the installation of Windows security patches released on April 9, including McAfee, Avast and Sophos. Antivirus solutions from different vendors are showing malfunctions after the installation of Windows security patches released on April 9. Antivirus solutions from Sophos, Avira, ArcaBit, Avast, and recently McAfee reported security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2018
Crook faces up to 35 years in prison for operating the popular Scan4You counter anti-virus (CAV) website that helped malware authors to test the evasion capabilities of their codes. Scan4You is a familiar service for malware developers that used it as a counter anti-virus (CAV). Scan4You allowed vxers to check their malware against as many […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2018
Security experts at Check Point that analyzed North Korea’s antivirus software SiliVaccine discovered it is based on a 10-year-old anti-malware engine developed by Trend Micro. Check Point received the very rare sample of North Korea’s SiliVaccine antivirus software from the freelance journalist Martyn Williams. The researchers discovered the SiliVaccine application contained “large chunks of 10+-year-old antivirus engine code […]
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