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E-Mail Spam Morphs in First Half of 2008
Views: 351    Not Rated     Last Modified: 03 Jul 2008 12:38 Changes in content and distribution medium found in BitDefender survey

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BitDefender researchers released today the roundup of May's most widespread malware on personal computers
Views: 5500    Not Rated     Last Modified: 05 Jun 2008 13:04 The top is roundly dominated by Trojans, most of them discovered in the last few months - with the notable exception of Zlob, a bit of malware which has been making the rounds for some time now.
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BitDefender Lab’s Top 10 Malware List for April Dominated by Malware Packers
Views: 5150    Not Rated     Last Modified: 21 May 2008 12:08 BUCHAREST, Romania – May 9, 2008 – BitDefender®, a global provider of award-winning antivirus software and data security solutions, announced today that malware packers have gained even more popularity in the month of April, as three of the positions on BitDefender’s April 2008 Top Ten Malware list are occupied with malware packed by such software. According to BitDefender Labs, the three are all packed with the same type of packer (NSAnti) which has caused problems in previous months.
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BitDefender Detects EDUnet Trojan Spread
Views: 4611    Not Rated     Last Modified: 30 Apr 2008 08:11 Trojan uses .edu and .mil servers as spam relays
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Nigerian Scam 2.0 Targets LinkedIn and Other Social Networking Sites
Views: 3504    Not Rated     Last Modified: 23 Apr 2008 11:22 Researchers from BitDefender® have detected that social networks are the newest medium for Nigerian "4-1-9" scams.
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BitDefender Lab’s Top 10 Malware List for March Reveals the Storm Worm is Back in Action
Views: 13987    Not Rated     Last Modified: 02 Apr 2008 13:01 The Storm Work dominates as BehavesLike:Trojan.ShellHook becomes
the most widespread malware technique

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BitDefender Finds Spammers are Leveraging Google Applications
Views: 8160    Not Rated     Last Modified: 19 Mar 2008 11:25 Bucharest, Romania. – March 17, 2008 – BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of antivirus software and data security solutions, announced today that BitDefender antispam analysts have detected that Nigerian scam spammers are using a new gateway to target the corporate world: Google Calendar.
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BitDefender Products Detect JS.Blackworm.A Yahoo Email Worm
Views: 8096    Rating: 2.33 of 5.00 (votes no: 3)     Last Modified: 23 Jun 2006 13:29 Proof of Concept Worm Harmless Now but Shows Potential for Real Danger
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BitDefender Alerts HP of Infected Drivers
Views: 5959    Not Rated     Last Modified: 01 Jun 2006 16:44 The Funlove virus was detected in a device driver being distributed to HP customers from the HP FTP servers. The very same virus first surfaced on the HP (then Hewlett-Packard) servers in 2000.

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No Patch Needed for Word Flaw?
Views: 4630    Not Rated     Last Modified: 23 May 2006 12:37 Independent antivirus testers AV-Test report that BitDefender provides accurate 100% detection of the Ginwui trojan - a dangerous piece of malware which uses a previously-unknown and as yet unpatched vulnerability to spread. The german testing outfit notes that most commercial software antivirus programs either miss some variants of the trojan or fail to detect it entirely.
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