Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2022

Many readers were surprised to learn recently that the popular Norton 360 antivirus suite now ships with a program which lets customers make money mining virtual currency. Founded in 2006, Avira Operations GmbH & Co. KG is a German multinational software company best known for their Avira Free Security (a.k.a. Avira Crypto.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. ” Once inside of a target organization, the hackers stole source code, software code signing certificates, customer account data and other information they could use or resell. Image: FBI. Tan DaiLin, a.k.a. Image: iDefense.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Six years later, a review of the social media postings from this group shows they are prospering, while rather poorly hiding their activities behind a software development firm in Lahore that has secretly enabled an entire generation of spammers and scammers. Also we are running business since 2006.” Image: Facebook.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. “Antivirus software trusts signed programs more. For some types of software, a digital signature is mandatory.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2022

Out of an abundance of caution, Mark submitted Saicoo’s drivers file to Virustotal.com , which simultaneously scans any shared files with more than five dozen antivirus and security products. “The Army Reserve started using CAC logon in May 2006,” Danberry wrote on his “About” page. Image: Militarycac.com.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Microsoft Defender Antivirus suffers from a perception problem. For the first decade of its existence, starting with its 2006 release , Defender was a much-maligned piece of software that no business would use to protect its endpoints. That’s no longer the case.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. David Balaban is a computer security researcher with over 17 years of experience in malware analysis and antivirus software evaluation.

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