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Bitdefender Consumer Threat Landscape Report reveals Top 5 Windows Threats
Of the many threats we’ve seen targeting Windows systems last year, five key categories have remained in place: Trojans, PUA’s, Exploits, Miners and Ransomware. The vast majority of threats detected on Windows platforms in 2021 were trojans, with a 50% share, including specific families like Trickbot, Emoted, Dridex,…
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Street thugs are forcing victims to unlock phones so they can look for crypto wallets
A tech reporter for the Times had a rather nasty encounter recently and has some unsettling news for anyone relying exclusively on their phone. You can find the article in the link below.
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Spammers advertise dating platforms to meet Ukrainian women amid crisis
Our colleagues from Bitdefender Labs have picked up an active spam campaign that has been targeting internet users with a mixed bag of online dating opportunities such as mail order bride services and dating platforms where single western men can meet Ukrainian women. Despite the ongoing conflict on Ukrainian soil, many…
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US Authorities Shut Down SSNDOB Marketplace Selling Data of over 24 Million People
The US Department of Justice has shut down SSNDOB, a popular darknet marketplace for trading compromised Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, credit card numbers, and other sensitive personally identifiable information (PII). Thought to possess the stolen PII of over 24 million Americans, SSNDOB operated using at least…
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New Malware Strain ‘SVCReady’ Loads from Word Documents
Security researchers discovered a new malware loader dubbed ‘SVCReady’ in recent phishing attacks. The malware has an atypical way of infecting the compromised device, by loading from Word documents’ properties. SVCReady stores shellcode in the properties of malicious Word documents and executes it through VBA macro code.…
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2 Million Patient Records Compromised in Largest Healthcare Breach of 2022 So Far
Shields Health Care Group, which provides services to dozens of clinics and hospitals across New England, has disclosed a data breach that affected a whopping 2 million patients. In a notice to affected parties, Shields revealed that the company was alerted to suspicious activity on March 28 that may have involved data…
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Costa Rica: What Happens When an Attack Shuts Down a Country?
For the last few months, the country has been virtually paralyzed by a bloody ongoing cyberwar with the Russia-affiliated Conti ransomware gang, which in mid-April managed to infiltrate 27 government agencies at various levels in the state hierarchy. Among the worst-hit institutions were the Ministry of Finance, the…
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Ongoing phishing campaign on Messenger goes after Facebook accounts
Finland's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-FI) warns of an ongoing phishing campaign attempting to hijack Facebook accounts by impersonating victims' friends in Facebook Messenger chats. In the alert, the NCSC-FI says that all Facebook users who received messages from online acquaintances asking for their phone numbers…
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DDoS attack takes out Internet for whole country
Andorra Telecom, the tiny microstate's only internet service provider, tweeted that a barrage of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks had impacted the country's internet and 4G service. According to reports, the DDoS attackers' true targets were participants in a Spanish-speaking online gaming tournament that was…
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Bitdefender researchers find Teabot malware dropping Android apps
Most believe the official Google Play Store is completely safe to download and vetted for security purposes before they become available to the public. That's true most of the time but not always. Sometimes malicious apps are missed and stay active on official stores accruing thousands of downloads before they are noticed…
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Have you updated your Apple devices recently?
Apple is preparing new versions of iOS and macOS that include an important fix for a recently discovered flaw in WebKit, the web browser engine used by Safari and many other apps on the two operating systems. On January 14, researchers from FingerprintJS made a worrying disclosure: a bug in Safari 15’s implementation of…
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If you're running Android you should probably check this
"Are you worried that someone may be intercepting your phone calls and SMSs? Well, you might not be just paranoid, and it’s not just about spying programs installed on your mobile device. The privacy and information security community has been warning people for years about stingray attacks, a technique that consists of…
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When is the last time you cleaned up your computer?
January is National Clean Up Your Computer Month! There’s no better way to celebrate than giving a makeover to this important tool that supports both your professional and personal life. Here are six tips from Bitdefender to get your computer off to a productive 2022: Back up your data Regularly backing up your data is an…
