‘Ridiculous’ Bug in Popular Antivirus Allows Hackers to Steal all Your Passwords

‘Ridiculous’ Bug in Popular Antivirus Allows Hackers to Steal all Your Passwords

If you have installed Trend Micro’s Antivirus on your Windows computer, then Beware.

Your computer can be remotely hijacked, or infected with any malware by even through a website – Thanks to a critical vulnerability in Trend Micro Security Software.

The Popular antivirus maker and security firm Trend Micro has released an emergency patch to fix critical flaws in its anti-virus product that allow hackers to execute arbitrary commands remotely as well as steal your saved password from Password Manager built into its AntiVirus program.

The password management tool that comes bundled with its main antivirus is used to store passwords by users and works exactly like any other password manager application.

Even Websites Can Hack Into Your Computer

Google’s Project Zero security researcher, Tavis Ormandy, discovered the remote code execution flaw in Trend Micro Antivirus Password Manager component, allowing hackers to steal users’ passwords.

In short, once compromised, all your accounts passwords are gone.

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Source: ‘Ridiculous’ Bug in Popular Antivirus Allows Hackers to Steal all Your Passwords | The Hacker News


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