Trojan.Obad.A Gets Administrator Privileges and Manages Your Device for You

Trojan.Obad.A Gets Administrator Privileges and Manages Your Device for You

A new variant of Android malware is making its rounds in the wild, wreaking havoc among users and taking complete control over the infected smartphone. Once launched, the sophistic ...

Underneath E-mails: Phishing Attacks

Underneath E-mails: Phishing Attacks

Our colleagues at Bitdefender France have started an interesting series of articles to reveal what apparently innocent e-mails may hide behind the lines, links or attachments. We d ...

Spear Phishing Targeting Executives Puts Vanity back in Business

Spear Phishing Targeting Executives Puts Vanity back in Business

A new spear phishing attack targeting executives claims victims in English-speaking countries by appealing to their vanity. The “Top 100 Executives” scam was resurrected by cyber-c ...

Popular Twitter Hashtag Fills up Social Engineers’ Data Base

Popular Twitter Hashtag Fills up Social Engineers’ Data Base

One of Twitter’s most popular hashtags may become a strong social engineering resource. As users share personal information with complete strangers, #69factsaboutme will increasing ...

Fake Amazon Order Confirmation Promises 55” TV Set, Delivers Malware

Fake Amazon Order Confirmation Promises 55” TV Set, Delivers Malware

A recent spam campaign abuses the world’s largest online retailer, Amazon.com, to promise a 55” TV set but instead direct users to a malware-laden page and infect them with a notor ...

Kids Watch Porn Online as Early as Age 6, Bitdefender Study Shows

Kids Watch Porn Online as Early as Age 6, Bitdefender Study Shows

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 wor ...

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. ...

BitDefender weekly review

By: | 0 comments | November 09, 2009 |   Posted in: WEEKLY REVIEW
BitDefender weekly review

We hope that you have updated your antivirus database signature because malware authors have surely done their work this week. During the past few days there we have seen a lot of new malware popping up on the web; however, today...

The Spam Omelette #48

By: | 0 comments | November 01, 2009 |   Posted in: SPAM REVIEW
The Spam Omelette #48

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....

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