Researchers observed the Vonteera adware family using system certificates to disable both anti-malware and anti-virus software, according to a Nov. 20 Malwarebytes blog post. The post said researchers witnessed the installer for the adware blacklisting the certificates of Avast Software, AVG Technologies, Avira, Baidu, Bitdefender, ESET, ESS Distribution, Lavasoft, Malwarebytes, McAfee, Panda Security, Trend Micro and ThreatTrack Security by automatically filing them as “Untrusted Certificates” in a user’s system causing it to refuse to run or download applications from sites signed by any of the 13 certificates.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine
