antivirus

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2022
The German BSI agency recommends replacing Kaspersky antivirus software

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 PLA Unit 61419 suspected to have purchased AVs for cyber-espionage

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
Experts warn of flaws in popular Antivirus solutions

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
Experts found Symlink race issues in 28 antivirus products

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 addressed multiple issues in online protection solutions

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
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 July 23, 2019
Comodo Antivirus is affected by several vulnerabilities

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
Avast, Avira, Sophos and other antivirus solutions show problems after

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
Judges convict crook of operating Scan4You Counter Antivirus Service

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
Mysterious findings emerged from the analysis of the SiliVaccine North Korea’s antivirus software

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 […]