Fifth Top Paid App on the Mac App Store Steals Users' Browsing History - Update

Patrick Wardle, former NSA hacker and currently chief research officer at Digita Security, uncovered the fact that Adware Doctor is stealing its users' browser history from most popular web browsers, as well as recent App Store searches and a detailed list of processes running on the Mac among other things.

The first one who detected Adware Doctor's suspicious spyware-like behavior was a security researcher with the @privacyis1st Twitter handle. He also uploaded a YouTube video on August 10th, detailing the exact procedure used by Adware Doctor to grab and upload the user's browsing history.

In his blog post, Patrick Wardle details how, when Adware Doctor:Antimalware & Ad is done collecting your data, it will also quickly zip everything up into a history.zip file and will upload it together with a JSON blob listing all the software downloaded on your Mac to a Chin... (read more)

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