OSX Backdoor Found on Angolan Activist’s Mac, Apparently Downloaded from Romania

OSX Backdoor Found on Angolan Activist’s Mac, Apparently Downloaded from Romania

The Bitdefender labs are currently working on an analysis of a Mac OS X backdoor that has been discovered by independent security researcher Jacob Applebaum on an Angolan activist. ...

Internet criminals outstrip hacktivists to take back dominance of the internet underworld

Internet criminals outstrip hacktivists to take back dominance of the internet underworld

Organized crime, data theft, and other “old school” methods for stealing information have re-gained control over the internet underworld  in the past year, shoving aside the hackti ...

Bitdefender Antivirus Free Adds Quarantine Ability

Bitdefender Antivirus Free Adds Quarantine Ability

Bitdefender Antivirus Free for desktop computers is designed to minimize both the performance footprint on computers and user interactions. Using the same award-winning technology ...

SysAdmin Hoax Goes International; Spanish Passwords Go Straight to Scammer Database

SysAdmin Hoax Goes International; Spanish Passwords Go Straight to Scammer Database

The SysAdmin scam that makes people believe they need to restore their account because of hacking attempts went international. The Spanish are now sending their passwords straight ...

Fake Deutsche Bahn Ticket Reservation Infects Germans with Malware

Fake Deutsche Bahn Ticket Reservation Infects Germans with Malware

A recent wave of malware-laden spam e-mails infects recipients with the Gamarue Trojan. The malware is delivered as an attachment disguised as an on-line train ticket reservation a ...

Spam Posing as FedEx E-mail Delivers Gamarue Trojans Instead of Packages

Spam Posing as FedEx E-mail Delivers Gamarue Trojans Instead of Packages

A new wave of malicious FedEx spam delivers Trojans instead of packages, infecting users with malware when opening the attachments. In the last couple months, the Gamarue Trojan ha ...

Dorkbot Malware Infects Facebook Users; Spies Browser Activities and Grabs Data

Dorkbot Malware Infects Facebook Users; Spies Browser Activities and Grabs Data

A new variant of the Dorkbot malware infects Facebook users worldwide, spreading from one friend to another through the social network’s internal chat. The Bitdefender Labs have ca ...

BitDefender weekly review

This week is more relaxed. We have decided to check out another rogue antivirus (what a surprise!) and a backdoor which allows complete control over the infected machine through a remote webserver....

BitDefender weekly review

In case last week lured you away from the regular routine, here's something to get you back to it. Massive multiplayer online games password stealers and rogue security software are on the menu to be served anyone interested enough to read more....

BitDefender weekly review

Half of the Fortune 100 companies plus hundreds of government agencies, financial institutions, universities and corporate networks worldwide are actively infected by the Mariposa Botnet, part of which is our weeks highlight as well: Worm.P2P.Palevo.J...

The Spam Omelette #45

Welcome to a new issue of our Spam Omelette, the weekly review focused on the latest trends in the spam industry. Before moving forward with the material, please take a look at our testing and map generation methodology, as explained in our first issue....

UPS

One of the latest malware distribution campaigns, relying on a medium size spam wave, features the abusive use of the delivery company's name to trick the users into downloading and compromising their systems. The unsolicited message informs the customers that UPSTM was not able to deliver an alleged package sent several months ago. The message also asks the recipients to download the invoice copy in order ...

BitDefender weekly review

People playing Flyff, Mentin2, Age of Conan, Runewaker, Lord of the Rings Online, Knight Online, WoW, Cabal Online and MapleStory should be cautious when logging in since a new version of last weeks password stealer is running amok....

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