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1.2% of apps on Google Play are repackaged to deliver ads, collect info

Not a month goes by without security researchers finding new malicious apps on Google Play. According to BitDefender, more than one percent of 420,000+ analyzed apps offered …

Car and electronics shoppers at risk of escrow fraud

Cars, motorbikes and electronics top the list of items that scammers use most to swindle online shoppers in the growing underworld of escrow fraud, according to our recent …

Bitdefender launches Antivirus Free for Android

Bitdefender has launched Antivirus Free for Android, which offers smartphone owners a free, fast and powerful antivirus solution that taps the latest in-the-cloud scanning …

Centralized security management for physical, virtual and mobile endpoints

At the RSA Conference 2013 in San Francisco, Bitdefender announced GravityZone, a centralized security management system for physical, virtual and mobile endpoints. Using …

Google Chrome App grabs identities, forges blogs in victims’ name to promote scam

A Google Chrome app that promises to change the color of Facebook accounts instead nabs authentication cookies and generates dozens of blogs registered to the victims’ …

Bitdefender unveils new generation of products

Bitdefender launched Bitdefender 2013, improving and adding a whole arsenal of features to keep users safe. Bitdefender Safepay brings online banking and shopping to a whole …

Flamer removal tool from Bitdefender

Bitdefender released a tool to find and remove the most complex, dangerous spy tool yet discovered, the newly discovered Flamer attack toolkit. Flamer, also known as Skywiper, …

Spam with malicious attachments rising

While the volume of spam messages is falling, the number of messages containing malicious attachments increased, meaning that spam is growing more dangerous even as it becomes …

Autorun-based threats account for 12% of global infections

Bitdefender announced that more than four years after Autorun was eliminated from operating systems, worms that take advantage of the antiquated feature account for more than …

What’s in your daily slice of spam?

Just as the original spam – the tinned meat of 50 years ago – prompted people to wonder just what it contained, so too does the spam of the internet age. …

Optimize Android for free with Bitdefender Power Tune-Up

Bitdefender launched Power Tune-Up, a free app to maximize the performance of your Android while sparing battery power and controlling data traffic. “Bitdefender is …

Scammers advertise Pinterest bots on Facebook

Internet scammers have launched a paid advertising campaign on Facebook targeting Pinterest fans, bringing the hunt for victims to a higher level of investment and …

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