Bitdefender acquires security company Horangi Cyber Security
Bitdefender is expanding its portfolio of security services and products with the acquisition of Singapore-based Horangi Cyber Security. In doing so, it has primarily acquired capabilities to create new services for monitoring attack surfaces.
With the acquisition, details of which were not disc... Read more
“New form of malware steals data via remote desktop clients”
Researchers at Bitdefender have warned of a new form of malware that attacks remote desktop protocol clients to steal data.
The malware is known to Bitdefender as RDStealer, SiliconANGLE reports. The Labs team inside the company discovered the malicious program while observing an East Asian stat... Read more
Security pros are often pressured not to disclose data breaches
A new study finds that nearly half of security practitioners are being told to ‘keep data breaches under wraps’.
A new study published this week shows almost half of cyber security professionals are pressured to keep data breaches secret, according to ITPro.
The survey of 400 IT and secur... Read more
Researchers warn of increase in SSRF attacks on Microsoft Exchange
Bitdefender warns of an increase in cyberattacks on on-premises deployments of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016 and 2019.
The security company witnessed a recent rise in ProxyNotShell and OWASSRF, two tactics for attacks on Microsoft Exchange Server.
The tactics exploit two known vulnera... Read more
Wyze cams vulnerabilities exposed users to device takeover and video access
Three vulnerabilities in Wyze Labs cameras have been discovered, exposing users to device hijacking and footage access.
The first two flaws, described today by researchers from Bitdefender, permitted authentication evasion and remote code execution. At the same time, the third provided unverifie... Read more
New malware that infects Windows via search results ads
A newly discovered form of malware has been detailed and shows an interesting system of delivery. Named MosaicLoader, the malware is delivered through adverts in search results. The malware can steal passwords, install cryptocurrency miners and deliver other trojan malware.
MosaicLoader was deta... Read more
Bitdefender unveils XEDR solution
Bitdefender released the next edition of its Endpoint Detection and Response solutions eXtended EDR (XEDR), with added analytics and cross-endpoint security event correlation with EDR and GravityZone Ultra.
GravityZone Ultra is the company’s unified endpoint prevention, detection and response,... Read more
Cracked Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop steal your data
Cracked versions of Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop are stealing browser cookies and Monero cryptocurrency wallets from freeloaders who installed pirated software. The report about these activities comes from Bitdefender.
As many of our readers probably know, cracked versions of the softwar... Read more
BitDefender updates GravityZone, adds upstream prevention
GravityZone, BitDefender's unified endpoint security platform, is being updated with a number of enhancements to recognise and combat threats earlier in the attack chain. It also provides step-by-step instructions for users to respond to threats.
The updates are intended to make it easier for us... Read more
Bitdefender NTSA now also detects attacks using DNS services
Bitdefender's Network Traffic Security Analytics (NTSA) solution can now also recognize attacks that use DNS and FTP services. This is possible because of the fact that the NTSA solution now includes machine learning algorithms for this purpose.
Bitdefender NTSA
is a solution that allows compani... Read more