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Avast Blog – 7.29.20 (7.24.20) We often teach our children the lessons that we learned ourselves when we were little… Look both ways before crossing the street. Don’t talk to strangers. Wash your hands before eating (true these days now more than ever). Most of these lessons are about protecting our kids. But today as…

Avast Blog – 7.7.20 In the last few days, our Mobile Threat Labs team at Avast discovered a Cerberus banking Trojan on Google Play that was targeting Android users in Spain. As is common with banking malware, Cerberus, disguised itself as a genuine app in order to access the banking details of unsuspecting users. What’s not so common…

Avast Blog – 6.29.20 (6.26.20) Security researchers have discovered what they believe to be a global surveillance campaign whereby attackers were using malicious Google Chrome browser extensions to steal data and spy on over 100 networks. Threatpost reported that the researchers suspect millions of Chrome users were targeted across the industries of financial services, oil and gas,…

Avast Blog – 6.24.20 As cloud-based technologies become the tool of choice for today’s global workforces, keeping businesses protected from web-based attacks is a primary challenge for IT service providers. First, let’s look at how encryption is used to keep web traffic safe. For example, hypertext transfer protocol secure — or HTTPS — uses encryption…

Avast Blog – 6.18.20 (6.16.20) Most of us tend to think about the web as a single destination, available through our browsers on our laptops and phones. But over the years it has evolved into three very different parts: the clear or public web, the private or deep web and the darknet or dark web. In…