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New virus ‘the work of a bored Romanian student’
A new virus that pretends to be an update from anti-virus company Bitdefender was dismissed as “amateurish” by the company's CTO.
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Bitdefender acquires RedSocks
Bitdefender reported today the acquisition of the Dutch behavior and network security analytics company RedSocks Security BV. Financial details of the deal, which closed on October 11, were not released, but Rares Stefan, Bitdefender’s chief strategy officer, said it was all cash with Bitdefender obtaining RedSocks and its technologies and assets in its entirety. Although…
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BitDefender
Softwin's BitDefender looks and feels rather like an old-school anti-virus product, but its performance belies its exterior. The product integrates with Microsoft's VS-API for Exchange. Installing it required a restart.
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Linux security beta testers offered beer and blood
In a bizarre bid to attract beta testers an IT security company is offering 1,000 German beers and a meeting with Count Dracula to the software engineer who most thoroughly tests its Linux-based antivirus offering.
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Bitdefender’s free tool protects against TeslaCrypt, Locky, CTB-Locker infections
Bitdefender released a free tool that can be used to clean systems infected by the ransomware strains Locky, CTB-Locker, and TeslaCrypt.
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“Byzantine” botnet uses military, education servers for spam
Researchers at an Eastern European security company have uncovered a spam-sending scheme of "Byzantine complexity" that attempts to use military and university email servers to send junk email
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We have the power: ‘Smart’ sockets could be enslaved to create botnet
Bitdefender has discovered vulnerabilities in a popular brand of 'smart' electrical socket which could lead to attacks on your local area network or the recruitment of the IoT device as part of a global botnet.
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Malware posing as Firefox plugin steals login information
Victims infected with new malware may have their financial login credentials sent to a web address in Russia.
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First Look: Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection (HVI)
Bitdefender's Hypervisor Introspection (HVI) tool is designed to solve a difficult problem in virtual environments.
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Before shutdown, ransomware op spreading “Icepol” caused 42,000 U.S. infections
In the course of five months last year, a concerning number of users in the US were hit by ransomware, dubbed "Icepol."
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