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September 10, 2018 07:46 pm GMT
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Popular Mac apps caught harvesting users' browsing data without consent
A number of applications on Apple's Mac App Store are secretly gathering user data and uploading it to analytics servers.
Popular applications including Dr. Unarchiver, Dr. Cleaner, and others distributed by developer "Trend Micro, Inc." collect and upload the user's browser history from Safari, Google Chrome, and Firefox onto their servers via access to the macOS home directory.
These rogue apps will also collect data from other apps installed on the system, all of which is gathered the moment you launch them, according to 9to5Mac. The issue was originally spotted by a user on the Malwarebytes forum. Read more...
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