Category: symantec

Multiple antivirus apps are vulnerable to common security flaws

Post author By Randall
Post date April 26, 2020
Categories In antivirus, avg, eset, exploit, f-secure, gear, Internet, kaspersky, linux, Mac, malware, malwarebytes, mcafee, Microsoft, News, Security, software, sophos, symantec, symlink race, Tech, vulnerability, webroot, windows

[ad_1] Intruders would still need to download and run the necessary code before launching a symlink race, so this is more of a tool to facilitate an existing breach than start it. Researchers also noted that most of the vendors (including AVG, F-Secure, McAfee and Symantec) have fixed the bugs, some of them quietly. This […]

Sneaky tactics lead to millions of malware-laden Android app downloads

Post author By Randall
Post date September 26, 2019
Categories In adware, Android, android malware, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, Google, malware, Mobile, play store, play store malware, symantec, Tech

[ad_1] Once a user downloads the app, the executed code hides its icon and displays full-screen ads (which is similar to an issue discovered last month). The ads do not indicate which app is triggering them, and they’re displayed even when the malicious app is closed, so users have no way of knowing which one […]

Chinese spies may have fed stolen NSA tools to Wannacry creators

Post author By Randall
Post date May 7, 2019
Categories In gear, Security, shadow brokers, symantec, Tech, wannacry

[ad_1] Symantec has found that the Buckeye group — its codename for a Guangzhou-based contractor for the Chinese Ministry of State Security — has been using the stolen NSA tools at least a year before the Shadow Brokers leak. The software security firm believes that Buckeye captured the tools during an NSA attack and then […]