For more than a decade, adware has helped software creators earn money while bringing free applications to the masses. Headliner games and applications have...
Category - Anti-Malware Research
Posts related to ongoing research into malware detection and removal.
Around February this year, we came across a piece of malware that had previously gone unnoticed. Buried in the malware zoo, the threat seems to have been...
Ransomware has become one of the most profitable cybercrime verticals in recent years. Complex infection mechanisms and highly profitable affiliation schemes...
More than 30 years after the end of the Cold War, digital infrastructures worldwide have become strategic national fronts with the same importance as the...
Bitdefender researchers have uncovered an emerging botnet that uses advanced communication techniques to exploit victims and build its infrastructure. The bot...
Malware authors are surely known for their ability to fly under the radar. But every once in a while, details about their operations surface on the web. This...
A new strain of ransomware that has emerged today has hit a number of high profile institutions in Russia and Ukraine, such as the Kiev metro system, the...
More than a year ago, on July 26th 2016, the Bitdefender Threat Intelligence Team came across a suspicious document called News.doc. However, unlike most...
In 2016, Bitdefender uncovered a new advanced persistent threat dubbed Pacifier, targeting government institutions starting in 2014. Using malicious .doc...