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Hackers are attacking applicants through an active campaign with fake job offers on LinkedIn: As part of the application process, the attackers receive malicious code for a backdoor, an infostealer, a keylogger and a cryptominer via a link. Bitdefender Labs sees connections to the North Korean Lazarus group (APT 38). LinkedIn is not just a platform for exchanging information and finding experts. Many cybercriminals are increasingly using the medium's credibility for their own purposes. Operators with a government background are also launching phishing campaigns or spreading false job offers in order to spread malicious code. Fake: Lucrative offers to developers...
Security experts have discovered cyber espionage against European authorities. The attacks may be the work of Russian groups who are also attacking authorities in Germany. They are using compromised Word documents from other authorities to do this. According to current observations by Bitdefender Labs, the APT group UAC-0063 is now increasingly targeting authorities with its cyber espionage, including probably embassies in Europe. Including in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Romania. The evidence of activities originally aimed at Central Asia and spreading to Central and Western Europe shows the attackers' competence and their flexibility in responding to developing geopolitical tensions....
There are plenty of predictions about cybersecurity every year, many of them full of exaggerations. It makes more sense to look at data and trends that have shaped the previous year and build a forecast on them. This reveals three major areas that will determine the cybersecurity situation for companies in the coming months: AI, hacktivism and quantum computing. The principles and innovations of AI have also been researched and extensively used at Bitdefender since 2008. But you shouldn't get caught up in the current hype. Contrary to the prevailing opinion, we think that AI in...
Role plays for cyber security: How tabletop exercises - TTX - prepare companies for emergencies. This is how employees learn how to behave correctly and act effectively in crisis situations. This means that every employee is helpful for IT security. People are the weakest link in the chain: This assumption is particularly true in cyber security, because despite the latest technologies, cyber criminals attack companies every day. By playing through security scenarios, employees can learn how to act quickly, correctly and effectively in crisis situations. These so-called tabletop exercises (TTX) prepare companies better for the worst case scenario. This is how...
With a new XDR extension, Bitdefender can now also protect data in Atlassian cloud applications. This makes it possible to monitor, detect and respond to IT security incidents in cloud-based productivity and collaboration solutions. Bitdefender has introduced a new Business Applications sensor for its GravityZone XDR cybersecurity platform. The sensor protects company data hosted and stored in cloud-based productivity and collaboration applications. It will initially support Atlassian cloud applications such as Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket and will later monitor other popular software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms for business processes. Native XDR platform is being expanded The Business Applications sensor extends Bitdefender's native XDR platform GravityZone XDR. Gravity Zone XDR tracks...
In addition to communicating directly with the victim, cybercriminals also maintain their external image. Reputation is an important success factor for ransomware-as-a-service companies. Most of the public relations work takes place on the darknet. But groups like Medusa communicate with and about their victims on the open internet and via social media. The well-known ransomware group Medusa - not to be confused with the ransomware blog MedusaLocker - has been active since 2023. In that year, Medusa counted 145 victims: a tally that the group had almost stopped by August 2024. By the end of the year, the total number of victims is expected to be 210....
Classic cyber insurance has been around for a while, but not in this form: Bitdefender MDR customers receive compensation of up to one million US dollars in the event of security incidents that impact business operations. Bitdefender is offering its MDR customers a new program for guaranteed compensation after a cyber breach in IT. The offer is the result of a partnership with Cysurance. The new program provides financial compensation of up to one million US dollars in the event of security incidents that impact business operations. The cybersecurity guarantee program for companies that use Bitdefender Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services is now available. No additional costs for...
It is a parallel world: Customers rate the quality of the counterfeit money, handguns, bazookas and drugs advertised in shops on the darknet during the Black Friday sale. Bitdefender experts keep an eye on the markets where stolen data from companies is also on offer. Customer ratings for counterfeit money as a seal of quality: The darknet is also an eCommerce marketplace. Criminals look for buyers during Black Week and try to win them over with discounts. Bitdefender Labs have recently observed the criminal scene's special sales campaigns in the hidden part of the internet. The offer...
For victims of Shrinklocker ransomware attacks, Bitdefender has developed a free decryptor to restore encrypted files. The ShrinkLocker tool, which was originally programmed for potentially useful purposes and has now been modified, changes the configurations of the Windows encryption tool Bitlocker so that victims can no longer access a system's drives. The Bitdefender Labs decryption program is now available for free download. After an in-depth analysis of how ShrinkLocker works, the experts at Bitdefender Labs discovered a way to restore files immediately after the maliciously abused protection mechanisms for BitLocker encrypted drives have been removed...
Bitdefender today introduced its new GravityZone Proactive Hardening and Attack Surface Reduction (PHASR). GravityZone PHASR analyzes individual user behavior, such as the use of applications or privileges for accessing resources, and clusters users into groups with similar behavior patterns. With this solution, Bitdefender offers the industry's first dynamic solution that directly aligns cyber defense strategies with user behavior. This novel approach ensures that IT security policies and controls are precisely tailored to the user privileges and behaviors that an IT security manager wants to give users. As soon as the...
