![]() ![]() But what the heck was Kaspersky doing there? That is malware built to manipulate bank websites, for example to secretly change the recipient of a money transfer. ![]() Before that day, I had observed such behaviour only from online banking Trojans. Without my permission, it was injecting that code. Since I had no suspicious browser extensions installed which could be responsible, the simple conclusion was that Kaspersky's virus protection was manipulating my traffic. Again, the same line of code popped up everywhere. To investigate, I experimented with webbrowsers Firefox, Edge, and Opera. However, the data leak discovered by c't caused the opposite effect. Kaspersky advertises the protection of privacy. So I had an inkling that the Kaspersky software might have something to do with it. Without exception, even on the website of my bank, a script from Kaspersky was introduced. However, when I checked the HTML source of other websites displayed in my browser, I found the strange code on each and every page. This is not uncommon, since a website nowadays hardly works without external JavaScript resources. Obviously, an external JavaScript script named main.js was being loaded from a Kaspersky domain. I looked at the HTML source code of an arbitrary website and came across the following line of code: ![]() One day, however, I made a strange discovery. The following weeks and months seemed to offer little excitement – the Kaspersky software worked essentially as well or as badly as Windows Defender. We, journalists at c't magazine, regularly test antivirus software, and this was part of a test for our c't issue 3/2019. Originally, I had installed the software in order to experience the promised added value during everyday use. Kasper-Spy: Kaspersky Anti-Virus puts users at riskĭieser Beitrag ist auch auf Deutsch erhältlichĪ strange discovery on my office computer led me to unearth an astonishing data leak caused by Kaspersky's antivirus software. ![]()
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