MacPaw Wins International Golden Kitty Award for SpyBuster App

The Ukrainian company MacPaw received the international Product Hunt award - Golden Kitty 2022. The company's victory was brought

SpyBuster app in the Privacy Focused category.

What is Golden Kitty

The Golden Kitty Award is an annual awardwhich is a kind of “Oscar” in the IT industry. This is the second time MacPaw has received this award. The company's first victory came with the Setapp app, which won the Consumer Product of the Year category in 2017.


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What is SpyBuster

SpyBuster is an application for macOS and iOS,which allows you to track spy programs in Russia and Belarus. Team MacPaw created SpyBuster in a bomb shelter a month after Russia invaded Ukraine.


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KIIV &mdash; September 25, 2023 &mdash; The Ukrainian company MacPaw won the international Golden Kitty 2022 award via Product Hunt. I will win the SpyBuster lock in the Privacy Focused category.

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Golden Kitty Award from Product Hunt &ndash;This is a great prize, which is obtained by the best technological products, and is a kind of Oscar in the IT industry. MacPaw is removing Golden Kitty from Product Hunt all of a sudden. The first victory for the company was brought by Setapp, which was a victory in the “Consumer Product of the Year” category. for 2017 rіk.

SpyBuster has two functions:&nbsp;

  1. Scans devices for the presence of installed programs that have connections with Russia and Belarus.

  2. I know that programs and websites force the private data of clients onto Russian and Belarusian servers.&nbsp;

SpyBuster users can view the following information:Such programs will block potentially unsafe data within a few seconds and, in this way, protect personal data from potential cyber threats from the side of the aggressor countries.&nbsp;

SpyBuster helps you identify and remove problemsprograms on devices from macOS and iOS. The SpyBuster static analysis function has been added to CleanMyMac X on MacPaw as part of the Uninstaller module. The SpyBuster team has also released an extension for the Google Chrome browser, which alerts users about suspected website connections to servers in aggressor countries and displays them on the map. You can find out and install any version of the program on the SpyBuster website. SpyBuster for iPhone is also available for purchase in the AppStore.

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Team Technological Research &amp; DevelopmentMacPaw created SpyBuster in less than a month as the war against bombshells began. Over the first months of SpyBuster work, the team informed a number of Ukrainian media about the connections of their sites with Russian servers, about which media they had not guessed. This helped Ukrainian media to expose themselves to similar threats and to avoid potential cyber threats. Also, SpyBuster was discovered by the integration of rutube into the popular Viber messenger, which has been spreading Russian propaganda among communists. The Ukrainian messenger office received such integration in one day.

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On the eve of Russia's full-scale invasion ofUkraine, the number of cyber attacks has increased sharply. Earlier, Microsoft security experts concluded that nearly 53% of all cyberattacks between 2020 and 2021 originated in Russia. The attacks ranged across a range of targets in the US, Ukraine, Great Britain and NATO allies across Europe.&nbsp;

&ldquo;Devices know and save the mostConfidential information about the life of business owners: notifications, documents, financial data, contacts, health data, photographs, videos, location and routes, passwords, web browser history. Knowing where specific data goes and who has access to it can be a key element of cybersecurity. Tom SpyBuster vs MacPaw &mdash; This is a preventive tool for doctors all over the world&rdquo; &ndash; means the head of Technological Research &amp; Development in MacPaw, Sergiy Krivoblotsky.