Kids start watching porn online from as early as the age of 6, and flirting on the Internet from the age of 8, according to a Bitdefender marketing study of over 19,000 parents worldwide. The antivirus company’s marketing research shows the age of kids accessing instant messaging and computer games is decreasing. Some 3.45% of children chatting with IM friends and 2 percent of computer game addicts are five...

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A wave of Russian dating spam drags users to a dangerous website loaded with Javascript malware. The Bitdefender Labs discovered an increasing number of e-mails designed to play on users’ virility to spread to inboxes worldwide. The Russian girls’ messages are straightforward and efficient, prompting users to respond fast to the bait. “Let’s act on our feelings and get to know one another,” one of the infec...

A Backdoor Agent is circulating with the aim of infecting Automated Clearing House clients via a fake payment receipt attached to notification e-mails, Bitdefender Labs has found. The e-mails are part of a rising wave of spam messages that carry a Trojan meant to grab users’ credit card details. “WIRE transaction is completed. $XXX has been successfully transferred. If the transaction was made by mistake pl...

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A wave of e-mails disguised as Facebook messages alleging that “Henry,” “Isabella” and “Luke” commented on your photo is the latest in a line of spam and scams to prey on Facebook fans. The spam e-mails seek to pique users’ curiosity only to redirect them to malicious and phishing websites that could steal their identity, their money and install malware on their computers. The Bitdefender Labs caught the ne...

The increasing number of kids using social media platforms and Android devices makes them vulnerable to online predators, cyber-bullying, identity theft and malware. Parents consider social networks the main danger to their children on the Internet. According to Bitdefender statistics, 54 percent of websites monitored or blocked by parents are social networks. “On social media, the main threats children fac...

Bitdefender is issuing an alert over the German Full Mailbox scam, a fast-spreading phishing campaign that steals Germans’ e-mail credentials through a phony survey. The scam, also in English, redirects users to a Dutch phishing website.  "Your mailbox has the storage limit, the 20GB as set by the administrator," reads a poorly crafted German-language email allegedly from the system administrator. "When you...

Bitdefender, which signed on this month to become a Data Privacy Champion, aims to alert computer users to the growing risks to their privacy and help them control their digital footprint in the company’s new status as a Data Privacy Champion. As a pioneer in data privacy, Bitdefender is hosting a webinar to examine what kind of data is sent and collected over the internet on January 28 between 9AM and 10AM...

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...