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Webinar: Reduce Attack Surface Exposure with DASR

🔒 Join a free webinar from The Hacker News and Bitdefender to learn how Dynamic Attack Surface Reduction (DASR) proactively closes exposures and reduces risk without adding operational burden. Experts will explain why traditional scans fall short, how automation and context reduce risks in real time, and how to safely test DASR in your environment. Register to save your seat.

Bitdefender Named Representative Vendor in 2025 Gartner Guide

🔒 Bitdefender has been named a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response for the fourth consecutive year. The recognition reflects Bitdefender’s human-driven MDR approach, combining 24x7 analyst-led response, AI-driven analytics, and proactive exposure management. Gartner inclusion is based on client visibility and service orientation rather than ranking, highlighting providers that meet its inclusion criteria.

Hackers Use Hyper-V to Hide Linux VM and Evade EDR

🔒 Bitdefender researchers report that the threat actor Curly COMrades enabled Windows Hyper-V on compromised hosts to run a lightweight Alpine Linux VM (≈120MB disk, 256MB RAM). The hidden VM hosted custom tooling, notably the C++ reverse shell CurlyShell and the reverse proxy CurlCat. By isolating execution inside a VM the attackers evaded many host-based EDRs and maintained persistent, encrypted command channels.

The Cybersecurity Perception Gap: Executive vs. Ops

🔍 The Bitdefender 2025 Cybersecurity Assessment highlights a widening perception gap between executives and operational security teams. While 93% of surveyed cybersecurity and IT professionals report confidence in managing an expanding attack surface, just 45% of C-level leaders describe themselves as "very confident" versus 19% of mid-level managers. Without improved reporting, shared visibility and stronger cross-level communication, this divide risks underinvestment and misaligned priorities that can create critical blind spots.

2025 Cybersecurity Reality Check: Attack Surface Focus

🔍 Bitdefender's 2025 assessment highlights rising secrecy after breaches, a widening leadership-to-frontline disconnect, and an urgent shift to shrink enterprise attack surfaces. The report, combining surveys of over 1,200 IT and security professionals across six countries and analysis of 700,000 incidents, shows 84% of high-severity attacks leverage Living Off the Land techniques. Organizations are prioritizing attack surface reduction and simplification to improve resilience and detection.

Chinese APT Uses Fileless 'EggStreme' Against Military Firm

🔒 Bitdefender tracked a Chinese APT intrusion that used a novel, fileless framework dubbed EggStreme to compromise a Philippines-based military contractor. The multi-stage toolkit injects code directly into memory, leverages DLL sideloading and abuses legitimate Windows services for persistence, and delivers a gRPC-enabled backdoor, EggStremeAgent, with extensive reconnaissance and exfiltration capabilities. Bitdefender advises limiting use of high-risk binaries and deploying advanced detection and response to detect living-off-the-land operations and anomalous behavior.