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MY TAKE: Surfshark boosts ‘DIY security’ with its rollout of VPN-supplied antivirus protection

The Last Watchdog

Thus, Surfshark has just become the first VPN provider to launch an antivirus solution as part of its all-in-one security bundle Surfshark One. And let’s not forget the longstanding, multi-billion market of antivirus software subscriptions directed at consumers. Related: Turning humans into malware detectors. Why isn’t this enough?

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Security Yearbook’ preserves cybersecurity history — highlights tectonic shift

The Last Watchdog

Cybersecurity, which started with antivirus suites, spam filters and firewalls, has mushroomed into a $103 billion industry. Tectonic shift Digital transformation takes on a more precise meaning through the lens of Stiennon’s latest book. Much has changed; much has remained the same. You see it everywhere.” Lines are getting blurred.

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Critical Bug in Android Antivirus Exposes Address Books

Threatpost

Comprehensive testing of 21 free Android antivirus apps revealed big security vulnerabilities and privacy concerns; especially for AEGISLAB, BullGuard, dfndr and VIPRE.

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MY TAKE: What NortonLifeLock’s $8 billion buyout of Avast portends for consumer security

The Last Watchdog

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Way back in 1990, Symantec acquired Norton Utilities and made Norton the heart of its antivirus subscription offering. Related: The coming of ubiquitous passwordless access.

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Latin American Javali trojan weaponizing Avira antivirus legitimate injector to implant malware

Security Affairs

Latin American Javali trojan weaponizing Avira antivirus legitimate injector to implant malware. After that, the following files are extracted, namely: Avira.exe : Legitimate injector from Avira Antivirus. In the last few years, many banking trojans developed by Latin American criminals have increased in volume and sophistication.

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Author Q&A: Here’s why the good guys must continually test the limitations of ‘EDR’

The Last Watchdog

Related: How ‘XDR’ defeats silos Now along comes a new book, Evading EDR: The Definitive Guide for Defeating Endpoint Detection Systems , by a red team expert, Matt Hand, that drills down a premier legacy security system that is in the midst of this transition: endpoint detection and response, EDR. Hand: I don’t believe so.

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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

Krebs on Security

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. ru , which for many years was a place to download pirated e-books. antivirusxp09[.]com).

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