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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

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

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

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

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 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

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. ...

Why HTTPS is (always) good for you

By: rlivintz@bitdefender.com | 0 comments | June 18, 2009 | Posted in: HOW TO....

Even when it comes to e-mail, g-mail, any-mail...

The Spam Omelette #30

By: Bogdan Botezatu | 0 comments | June 18, 2009 | Posted in: SPAM REVIEW

Welcome to the Spam Omelette, BitDefender...

BitDefender weekly review

By: | 0 comments | June 12, 2009 | Posted in: WEEKLY REVIEW

This week we stumbled across a new version of the Cutwail botnet (also known as Pandex or Pushdo). We've takes the liberty to analyze its main components and see what makes it tick, because it's the second largest spam-bot on the planet, which means it has to be interesting....