BitDefender

A new Trojan marked as "a serious enemy" is threatening corporate networks as it can be used as a corporate spying tool, warned the Internet security specialist BitDefender. The security vendor stated that Trojan.Spy.YEK sniffs for critical data and archives that may hold private information and sends them back to the attacker. It is a serious threat because the Trojan features both spying and backdoor capabilities, say BitDefender Malware Researchers Doina Cosovan and Octavian Minea.

A new research by BitDefender confirmed that there is sense in having different user names and passwords to protect identities and information not meant to be public. The company revealed that many people today use the same user name and password in logging into several secure websites. The experiment also revealed that some 250,000 e-mail addresses, user names and passwords were found in social and open networks, including blogs, collaboration platforms, torrents, and other channels.

A new scam is being spread across the Internet with fraudsters distributing fake Microsoft notifications to users advising them to check if their operating systems could be upgraded to Windows 7. The software attached to the message is nothing more than a Trojan horse that infects user PC once he/she installs it.

As security company BitDefender found, 50% of current gamers more likely to receive spam and be the target of phishing attacks.

That is evidently happens as gamers are a bit too gung-ho to add anyone to their friends list in order to have more people to play with. Gamers are more likely to accept spammers in their friends list when they are in a social network than in any other online communication environment

BitDefender dodgy update bricked Win 64-Bit systems after it was applied.

Malicious signature updates meant that multiple Windows and BullGuard files were falsely flagged as infected with Trojan-FakeAlert-5 and isolated. Affected systems were subsequently left with applications that wouldn't work on boxes that were incapable of successfully rebooting.