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Experts found DLL Hijacking issues in Avast, AVG, and Avira solutions

Security Affairs

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. “this vulnerability could have been used in order to achieve self-defense bypass, defense evasion, persistence and privilege escalation.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Dutch police arrested the author of Dryad and Rubella Macro Builders

Security Affairs

The macro might also purposely attempt to bypass endpoint security defenses. . The Rubella Macro Builder is cheap, fast and easy to use, the malware it generated can evade antivirus detection. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Big Brands Defenseless Against POS Malware

SiteLock

2014 could go down as one of the most significant years in the world of cybersecurity, and malware in particular. Whether it was because the security defenses failed, or the hackers got lucky with a careless vendor, it should be a wake-up call for all business owners.

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APT trends report Q1 2021

SecureList

It was first publicly documented in 2014, in the aftermath of the Gamma Group hacking incident. On February 24, the National Security Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) publicly warned that a threat actor had exploited a national documents circulation system (SEI EB) to distribute malicious documents to Ukrainian public authorities.

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