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Kasper-Spy: Kaspersky Anti-Virus puts users at risk
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<blockquote data-quote="Venustus" data-source="post: 829642" data-attributes="member: 4295"><p><strong><em>Kaspersky promises security and data protection. However, a data leak allowed third parties to spy on users while they were surfing the web. For years.</em></strong></p><p><em>A strange discovery on my office computer led me to unearth an astonishing data leak caused by Kaspersky's antivirus software. Originally, I had installed the software in order to experience the promised added value during everyday use. We, journalists at c't magazine, regularly test antivirus software, and this was part of a test for our c't issue 3/2019.</em></p><p><em>The following weeks and months seemed to offer little excitement – the Kaspersky software worked essentially as well or as badly as Windows Defender. One day, however, I made a strange discovery. I looked at the HTML source code of an arbitrary website and came across the following line of code:</em></p><p>[SPOILER="Script"]<em><script type="text/javascript" src="<a href="https://gc.kis.v2.scr.kaspersky-labs.com/9344FDA7-AFDF-4BA0-A915-4D7EEB9A6615/main.js" target="_blank">https://gc.kis.v2.scr.kaspersky-labs.com/9344FDA7-AFDF-4BA0-A915-4D7EEB9A6615/main.js</a>" charset="UTF-8"></script></em>[/SPOILER]</p><p><em>Obviously, an external JavaScript script named main.js was being loaded from a Kaspersky domain. This is not uncommon, since a website nowadays hardly works without external JavaScript resources. However, when I checked the HTML source of other websites displayed in my browser, I found the strange code on each and every page. Without exception, even on the website of my bank, a script from Kaspersky was introduced. So I had an inkling that the Kaspersky software might have something to do with it.</em></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Kasper-Spy-Kaspersky-Anti-Virus-puts-users-at-risk-4496138.html" target="_blank"><strong>Read</strong></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Venustus, post: 829642, member: 4295"] [B][I]Kaspersky promises security and data protection. However, a data leak allowed third parties to spy on users while they were surfing the web. For years.[/I][/B] [I]A strange discovery on my office computer led me to unearth an astonishing data leak caused by Kaspersky's antivirus software. Originally, I had installed the software in order to experience the promised added value during everyday use. We, journalists at c't magazine, regularly test antivirus software, and this was part of a test for our c't issue 3/2019. The following weeks and months seemed to offer little excitement – the Kaspersky software worked essentially as well or as badly as Windows Defender. One day, however, I made a strange discovery. I looked at the HTML source code of an arbitrary website and came across the following line of code:[/I] [SPOILER="Script"][I]<script type="text/javascript" src="[URL]https://gc.kis.v2.scr.kaspersky-labs.com/9344FDA7-AFDF-4BA0-A915-4D7EEB9A6615/main.js[/URL]" charset="UTF-8"></script>[/I][/SPOILER] [I]Obviously, an external JavaScript script named main.js was being loaded from a Kaspersky domain. This is not uncommon, since a website nowadays hardly works without external JavaScript resources. However, when I checked the HTML source of other websites displayed in my browser, I found the strange code on each and every page. Without exception, even on the website of my bank, a script from Kaspersky was introduced. So I had an inkling that the Kaspersky software might have something to do with it.[/I] [URL='https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Kasper-Spy-Kaspersky-Anti-Virus-puts-users-at-risk-4496138.html'][B]Read[/B][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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