Cryptowall makes a comeback via malicious help files
A new spam wave has hit hundreds of mailboxes with malicious .chm attachments to spread the infamous Cryptowall ransomware. Cryptowall is an advanced version of Cryptolocker, …
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Banking Trojan Dyreza sends 30,000 malicious emails in one day
A massive spam wave is installing banking Trojan Dyreza on tens of thousands of computers to steal sensitive financial data from unsuspecting customers, warns Bitdefender. …
How can organizations guard against hackers in 2015?
Advanced persistent threats, malware sent via attachments, direct targeting of specific users through spear phishing techniques, vulnerabilities exploited to silently deliver …
Top Facebook scams and malware attacks
Millions of people fell for Facebook scams in 2014. Though security experts, companies and tech-savvy users guard against Facebook cyber attacks, many unwary users continue to …
Top 5 social media security predictions for 2015
Mobile ransomware, targeted job fraud and Trojans lurking behind shocking videos are all expected to make their appearance on social media in 2015. Studies in the last year on …
One in three Americans don’t use basic malware protection
One in three US-based computer users don’t use an antivirus solution, according to a survey carried by Bitdefender in September. Only 67.3 percent of respondents are …
Spammers spreading new Wolf of Wall Street scam
Millions of penny stock spam emails have been flooding inboxes, spreading a new “Wolf of Wall Street’ scam and inflating the stock values of a mineral deposit …
How to keep your contactless payments secure
Contactless transactions – ranging from access control and ticketing to financial payments – emerged almost two decades ago and, since then, have become widely …
Are free file storage solutions a safe bet for businesses?
The benefits of cloud computing are becoming increasingly recognized, and with this heightened understanding comes growing numbers of UK businesses that are embracing the use …
9 ways to protect data on your smartphone
Recent headlines of Hollywood celebrities’ nude photos leaking onto the Internet remind us of the privacy risks we face when we store personal data – particularly …
What does the future hold for cloud computing?
Positive reports of increasing levels of cloud adoption in the UK were plentiful in the technology media in the first half of 2014. The majority of coverage indicates that …
Pushdo Trojan infects 11,000 systems in 24 hours
Bitdefender has discovered that a new variant of the Trojan component, Pushdo, has emerged. 77 machines have been infected in the UK via the botnet in the past 24 hours, with …