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Kaspersky Antivirus Flaw Exposed Users to Cross-Site Tracking Online

A vulnerability in Kaspersky Antivirus software exposed a unique identifier associated with you to every website you visited in the past 4 years. The vulnerability resides in the way a URL scanning module integrated into the antivirus software, called, works. The attacker could use this information to redistribute a pest tailored to the protection software or redirect it to a suitable scam page, with the slogan: Your license has expired. Please enter your credit card number to renew the subscription page, researcher Ronald Eikenberg says.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2019/08/kaspersky-antivirus-online-tracking.html

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