How to Break Security Companies(14 Antivirus)

14 antivirus apps found to have security problems (Avira, BitDefender, ESET, Panda and so on)

Project Zero: Analysis and Exploitation of an ESET Vulnerability

Many antivirus products include emulation capabilities that are intended to allow unpackers to run for a few cycles before signatures are applied. ESET NOD32 uses a minifilter or kext to intercept all disk I/O, which is analyzed and then emulated if executable code is detected.

NSA Targeted One Of The World’s Biggest Security Companies With The Help Of US And British Governments

When the Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab disclosed recently that it had been hacked, it noted that the attackers, believed to be from Israel, had been in its network since sometime last year.

The company also said the attackers seemed intent on studying its antivirus software to find ways to subvert the software on customer machines and avoid detection.