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Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2022
A couple of 10-Year-Old flaws affect Avast and AVG antivirus

Researcher discovered a couple of high-severity security flaws that affect a driver used by Avast and AVG antivirus solutions. SentinelOne researcher Kasif Dekel discovered two high-severity security vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-26522 and CVE-2022-26523, that affect a driver used by Avast and AVG antivirus solutions. The bugs reside in the anti-rootkit kernel driver named aswArPot.sys which […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2020
Bugs in Avast AntiTrack expose users to cyber attacks

A flaw in the impacting Avast and AVG AntiTrack privacy software could expose users to browser hijacking and Man-in-The-Middle (MiTM) attacks. Security expert David Eade has discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2020-8987) in Avast and AVG AntiTrack privacy software that could expose end-users to Man-in-The-Middle (MiTM) attacks, browser session hijack, with consequent exposure of sensitive data. “A […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 04, 2019
Mozilla removed 4 Avast and AVG extensions for spying on Firefox users

Mozilla has removed four extensions from Avast and AVG from the Firefox site that are suspected to track user activity online. Four Avast and AVG Firefox extensions have been removed from Mozilla Addons Site over concerns of spying of users. “This add-on violates Mozilla’s add-on policy by collecting data without user disclosure or consent,” explained […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 23, 2019
Experts found DLL Hijacking issues in Avast, AVG, and Avira solutions

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 December 10, 2015
AVG, McAfee, and Kaspersky antivirus were vulnerable to critical flaw

Experts at enSilo have found a critical security vulnerability in various antivirus (AV) software that could be exploited by attackers to turn the AntiVirus to an attack-enabler tool. Some of the most important security firms have had an ugly surprise, the security software they offer to their clints have been compromised by a serious vulnerability flaw […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2015
AVG will sell user’s personal data to third-parties

The Antivirus maker AVG has announced its privacy policy in which the company informs users that it will collect and sell users’ personal data to advertisers. If you think that there is something really free on the Internet you are probably wrong. Someone ask you to pay for their products and services, others use their […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2013
Almost all game hacks are infected with malware

Security worldwide community is alarmed by the explosion of number of cyber threats that are becoming even more sophisticated and are exploring new channel to infect a larger number of machines for various purposes, from cyber espionage to the realization of complex fraud. Antivirus company AVG has published an interesting study on games hacks that […]

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