[UPDATE: Companies named and replied] Who watches the watchers? - 3 US Antivirus companies breached

[Andreas Lilja]

Has my commonsense.exe been breached?

[rcmaehl]

On 5/10/2019 at 12:12 PM, bcredeur97 said:

only US companies I can think of is Symantec, McAfee, and Malwarebytes

 

On 5/10/2019 at 12:10 PM, Lady Fitzgerald said:

It would have been nice if someone had told us what the three, and possibly, fourth AV companies were.

 

On 5/10/2019 at 8:37 AM, Dogeystyle said:

They're holding the name for ransom, so I'm going to guess the three products... McAfee Total Protection, McAfee Virus Service and McAfee LiveSafe

 

On 5/10/2019 at 1:06 PM, DKL said:

Top ones. None named as of yet.

 

On 5/10/2019 at 1:05 PM, TempestCatto said:

So which A/V's were breached?

Updated

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Symantec and McAffee were not a surprise. I'm not familiar with Trend Micro. 

[TempestCatto]

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Symantec, McAfee, and Trend Micro.

Glad it's nothing I use

[DKL]

As long as it's never Bitdefender & Kaspersky it means little to me, as I already look down on most other antivirus companies. If those ever were hacked I'd be seriously impressed though.

[captain_to_fire]

1 hour ago, DKL said:

As long as it's never Bitdefender & Kaspersky it means little to me, as I already look down on most other antivirus companies. If those ever were hacked I'd be seriously impressed though.

They were hacked in the past. 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/07/31/bitdefender-hacked/

 

https://media.kasperskycontenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2018/03/07205202/The_Mystery_of_Duqu_2_0_a_sophisticated_cyberespionage_actor_returns.pdf