The Romanian company Bitdefender is well-known for IT security solutions. One might think that the highest safety precautions prevailing in such a company. But not always are corresponding professionals immune to attacks from the outside, as already a find among the Russian competitors of Kaspersky demonstrated in the middle of the year. If a Trojan was infected with the peers, a hacker in the past days of Bitdefender captured a data record of unknown size with user data and passwords.
Bitdefender was a component of the Bitdefender cloud. The servers were not supposed to be accessed, but the attacker should have managed to steal "some" records with user access and passwords. These data are primarily data from business customers of small and medium-sized enterprises. US economic magazine Forbes says it is in contact with the hacker. This gave the journalists embarrassing details about the incident.
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The hacker - under the synonym "DetoxRansome" on the way - presented to the magazine a small part of its captured data. These are only in the plain text! In itself, it is mostly secure passwords, which the respective IT managers of the affected companies have devised. However, this is of little value if the data is not encrypted. According to Forbes, the hacker demands a ransom of 15,000 US dollars, otherwise all data captured by him would land publicly on the net. Bitdefender did not address the demand, the authorities took over the case.
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The vulnerability is due to encryption problems with the used Amazon service (Elastic Web Cloud). Bitdefender closed the leak according to own data. Customers are, however, advised to directly change all Bitdefender accounts.
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