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Lenovo sold laptop with pre-installed Superfish malware

The Lenovo computer company knowingly shipped laptops with pre-installed Superfish malware. The Superfish malware was installed on laptops sold until late last month, it was able to steal web traffic using fake, self-signed, root certificates to inject advertisements into sessions. Lenovo has removed Superfish the malicious software after numerous users reported the embarrassing discovery on its forums by claiming to be victims of attacks. Facebook engineering director Mike Shaver raised the alarm about the ad/bloatware on Twitter, and found SuperFish certificates posted by different users had shared the same RSA key.”]

Source: http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/33800/malware/lenovo-laptop-pre-installed-superfish.html

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