Found possible fake / phishing Bitdefender Central site

AnotherDave

@BogdanB_BD @Andy_BD

I think the Bitdefender team might want to look into these sites I discovered.

I've replaced all of the .com extensions with (DOT)com so that nobody will accidentally click to the sites.

These are not blacklisted nor does Bitdefender see anything wrong with them, but if you visit you can clearly see that it is suspicious, calling themselves Bitdefender Central, with links to "Access Now" and others in what appears to be phishing attempts to trick unwitting BD users.

Main site I found:

bitdefender-centrals(DOT)com

On which you can see an "Access Now" button that links to:

bitdefenderlogins(DOT)com

There are other suspicious links, such as all of the social media links at the top of bitdefender-centrals(DOT)com and hidden links to content from bitdefendercentralx(DOT)com

Something looks very phishy about bitdefender-centrals(DOT)com and it's content, and I'm surprised that BitDefender Total Security does not detect anything wrong about it.

Also surprised that the BD team isn't aware of the site, especially since it is linked in a couple of "spammy" posts on the official WooCommerce forums at https://ideas.woocommerce.com (I'm not posting links to the specific 2 posts in which it is mentioned, but would be happy to send info to @BogdanB_BD @Andy_BD in Private Message.

Can anyone from BD confirm my suspicions? Sure looks pretty obvious though...

Flexx

@AnotherDave

The support team has updated and the website is now blocked.

Regards

Flex

Flexx

https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/84055/found-possible-fake-phishing-bitdefender-central-site

It is a phishing website since all the social links on the stated website revert to fake social account of random people. The website has been reported to malware research team to get it blocked and to bitdefender support team to investigate and take it down.

The bottom page of the website states as below :

When you open website http://bitdefender-centrals[.]com/ click on bitdefender login -> login, it reverts to some other random website named as http://www.bitdefenderlogins[.]com/

@Alex D. @Andy_BD

Regards

Flex

(Bitdefender beta tester 2019/ 2020)