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Backdoors and Miners Amid eScan Antivirus Backdoor Exploit

Security Boulevard

Recently, a wave of malware attacks has surfaced, exploiting vulnerabilities in the update mechanism of the eScan antivirus software. This eScan antivirus backdoor exploit distributes backdoors and cryptocurrency miners, such as XMRig, posing a significant threat to large corporate networks.

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Threat Group Continuously Updates Malware to Evade Antivirus Software

eSecurity Planet

Clearly, companies and individuals should not rely exclusively on built-in security. However, the same also goes for antivirus software and other anti-malware solutions. If employees do not need macro-enabled documents , then disallow them (and notifications too) in your office productivity software.

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How to Remove Malware: Removal Steps for Windows & Mac

eSecurity Planet

Antivirus programs and firewalls are pretty good at catching malware before it can infect devices, but occasionally malware can slip through defenses, endangering personal and financial information. Malicious software frequently uses a large percentage of your device’s resources, resulting in visible decline in performance.

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Video game cheat mod malware demonstrates risks of unlicensed software

SC Magazine

They say cheaters never prosper, and new security research indicates that malicious hackers are doing their part to bring that bromide to life for unscrupulous gamers, including those who are downloading trojanized video game cheat mods on their work devices. This approach carries two main benefits.

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Avast Hit With $16.5 Million Fine for Selling Customer Data

Security Boulevard

Avast Software will pay a $16.5 million fine to settle a federal complaint accusing the antivirus vendor of collecting users’ browsing data over six years and selling it to advertising companies without their consent. Million Fine for Selling Customer Data appeared first on Security Boulevard. The post Avast Hit With $16.5

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17 cyber insurance application questions you'll need to answer

CSO Magazine

At first, most of the cyber insurance questions involved basic computer security and merely checked to see if we had firewalls and antivirus and not much else. Now the questions suggest that insurance providers understand that network security includes much more than antivirus software.

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Zero-Day Flaws Found in Several Leading EDR, AV Solutions

eSecurity Planet

SafeBreach Labs researcher Or Yair has uncovered zero-day vulnerabilities in several leading endpoint detection and response ( EDR ) and antivirus ( AV ) solutions that enabled him to turn the tools into potentially devastating next-generation wipers. ” He shared his findings in a presentation yesterday at Black Hat Europe.

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