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...

Most Halloween cyber-criminals make believe they advertise products while they are actually hunting users’ personal data through fake commercial spam campaigns, according to an analysis by Bitdefender. Up to 70 per cent of spammers who take advantage of Oct. 31 celebrations flood inboxes with images of cars and pharmaceuticals such as Viagra that redirect people to other websites. Users are then asked for p...

Social network named Foursquare, which has just celebrated its 2-year anniversary with a user base of 20 million, has apparently come of age in the scam world as well. How is it to order some Viagra, send money and never receive the products? Scammers have honed this trick elsewhere, but now pharmacy fraud has found its way to the location-based social networking platform. This is one of the first scams spo...

A brand new spam campaign that promotes a fake Windows update is currently circulating on the Web...

It's better to check twice a site than infect your computer....

Although they...

A fake LiveCD allegedly delivering the Android OS that runs on x86 Windows platforms turns out to be a Trojan....

BitDefender has detected a new rogue antivirus utility that attempts to trick users into installing it by posing as a BitDefender product. Suggestively named ByteDefender, the malicious application acts like a fully-fledged rogue antivirus with a twist....

Rogue antivirus and antispyware utilities have been around for a while, but the cyber-criminals behind this prolific business do not cease to upgrade their weapons....

A new...