Malware writers are once again counting on the female allure to draw in yearning and unwary men. “Hi baby, please check my facebook profile,” or “I miss you, check my new photo please” are just a few of the lines meant to trick users into clicking on malicious websites. Scammers even use authentic pictures of international models grabbed from their social network accounts. A new spam campaign targeting soci...

With the avalanche of security breaches this year, spear phishing attacks are to be expected in coming months. Hackers eviscerated data servers of highly visible companies and state institutions, (most recently NASA and the FBI) and had user private data put out on display - some on underground forums, but mostly on the Internet for everyone to see and use.  This provides criminals a lot of information- lik...

As the excitement and bustle of the holiday season takes hold, merry-makers are under attack with Christmas party and gadget scams promoted through social media and spam, according to Bitdefender®, the award-winning provider of innovative antivirus solutions. Bitdefender Labs discovered that the series of Christmas party scams lead to identity theft and lots of money losses. Offers for luxury watches are al...

A new spam campaign uses the promise of hot dates to lure Germans to a page with promises of MacBooks, iPhones and iPads. The e-mail poses as an announcement from eHarmony to see photos of singles and “find love today” but it actually works to attract victims to a fraudulent web site. After clicking on the link promising photos of singles, users are redirected to a fake survey website and tempted with popul...

Thousands of victims have fallen for a unusually stubborn scam circulating in various forms on Facebook promising to show users who has been looking at their profile, warns Bitdefender®, the award-winning provider of innovative antivirus solutions. Dozens of “guess who saw your profile” apps, with promises to reveal information about Facebook stalkers and viewers, have collectively exposed thousands of Face...

New Christmas scam campaign targets shoppers in need of extra cash with bogus loans and credit extensions and tricks them into accessing pages hosting BlackHole exploit kit.  With holidays just around the corner, crooks have already started to poke around for shoppers who want a piece of the online Christmas cheer, but don’t quite have the budget for it. If you are “short on cash this holiday,” there’s a sc...

North American and European Android users face the greatest chance of having their money stolen, while Asians tend to be bombarded with annoying ads and shortcuts from aggressive adware, according to a study by Bitdefender®. Countries with a high risk of being infected by money-stealing Android malware include the United States (16%), France (15%), Romania (15%), the United Kingdom (10%) and Germany (9%) th...

Crooks replace co.cc and co.kr with Tokelau’s free .tk TLD in cyber-attacks. Cyber crooks have significantly abused .tk domains in attack campaigns in the second half of 2012. Compared to the first half, the number of malicious .tk domains jumped from less than 1 percent to 9 percent of all security incidents involving Top Level Domains. The explanation for the jump is simple: In the second half, Tokelau’s ...

Some popular Android apps aimed at boys and girls in the US such as Tic Tac Toe Kids and Chef Cook Mania - Cooking Game habor aggressive adware capable of tracking and profiling children and hitting them regularly with unwanted advertising, according to Bitdefender®, the leading global antivirus company. The analysis was conducted in light of a recent study by the Federal Trade Commission on Google Play app...

Cyber-criminals have prepared some dirty tricks for tourists looking for a room over the holidays. And it’s not the same old reception RATs, banking Trojans, wrong hotel transactions and social media baits. Now, they’ve created their own fake hotels and are awaiting unwary guests. Not only malware, phishing and spam keep the Bitdefender Labs busy. Before and during the holidays, our antivirus specialists ha...