Antivirus giants form new coalition to put an end to stalkerware
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Antivirus giants form new coalition to put an end to stalkerware
A bunch of antivirus software vendors and non-profits including Avira, Kaspersky, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have banded together to take on secretly-installed snooping apps plaguing your devices.
Dubbed the Coalition Against Stalkerware (CAS), the collaborative effort aims to fight domestic violence, stalking, and harassment by addressing the use of stalkerware and raising public awareness about the issue.
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To that effect, the CAS intends to define best practices and improve the security industry's response to stalkerware by sharing known samples among participating cybersecurity firms.
In all, 10 organizations are part of the coalition: Avira, the EFF, G Data, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes, the National Network to End Domestic Violence, NortonLifeLock, Operation Safe Escape, Weisser Ring, and the Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence.
"In order to counter this issue, it is important for cybersecurity vendors and advocacy organisations to work together," said Vyacheslav Zakorzhevsky, Head of Anti-Malware Research at Kaspersky.
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