Bitdefender recently investigated an APT-style cyberespionage attack targeting an international architectural and video production company, pointing to an...
Category - Anti-Malware Research
Posts related to ongoing research into malware detection and removal.
A decryptor for the WannaRen ransomware is now available for download. Initially spotted in April 2020, WannaRen is mostly spreading through websites offering...
The rise of online property rental in an increasingly competitive sharing economy has had a severe impact on the adoption of Internet-connected smart locks...
The e-currency boom in late 2017 sparked a new type of “gold rush”, as cyber-criminals started racing to infect home computers and data centers with...
Bitdefender researchers have recently found the APT group StrongPity has been targeting victims in Turkey and Syria. Using watering hole tactics to selectively...
Bitdefender researchers have recently found an increasing number of SSH-targeting bots written in Golang. Traditionally, popular malware is written in C, C++...
In 2016, a sophisticated malware campaign targeting Pakistani nationals made headlines. Dubbed Bitter, the Advanced Persistent Threat group (also known as APT...
Bitdefender researchers Janos Gergo SZELES and Ruben Andrei CONDOR have documented a new Metamorfo campaign that uses legitimate software components to...
Bitdefender researchers have found attacks conducted by the Chafer APT threat group – known to have an apparent Iranian link – in the Middle East...
Criminals are using an old certificate to sign a malware that takes advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic situation, preying on people’s need for...