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Mobile Browsers’ Google Safe Browsing Flaw In 2018 Revealed

Google Safe Browsing system has been implemented by the Google search engine for more than a decade now, designed to block known websites harboring malware or phishing attempts against visitors. It is very efficient, given that Google has the most advanced web crawlers that index the web, marking as websites with harmful contents with a […]

New Attack Uses Microsoft’s Application Verifier to Hijack Antivirus Software

A new technique named DoubleAgent, discovered by security researchers from Cybellum, allows an attacker to hijack security products and make them take malicious actions. The DoubleAgent attack was uncovered after Cybellum researchers found a way to exploit Microsoft’s Application Verifier mechanism to load malicious code inside other applications. DoubleAgent attack leverages Microsoft’s Application Verifier The […]