Business Insights

GravityZone Achieves Top Results in AV-Comparatives Testing

Richard De La Torre — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:41:42 GMT

Over the past seven AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Tests, Bitdefender is the only vendor to consistently stay at or above a 99.8% protection rate. And in the 2026 testing, Bitdefender GravityZone once again allowed the fewest compromised systems while maintaining among the lowest false-positive counts. Bitdefender GravityZone continues to show consistent and superior efficacy among its peers in the latest real-world AV-Comparative Business Security Test.

When Visibility Becomes the Target: Bitdefender at Black Hat USA 2026

Yasser Fuentes — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:05 GMT

For more than a decade, the cybersecurity industry has invested heavily in improving detection.

Technical Advisory: wp2shell — Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution and Full Site Takeover in WordPress Core

Martin Zugec — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:46:03 GMT

| CVSS 9.8 (out of 10) | Active exploitation confirmed | Patch to 6.9.5 / 7.0.2 immediately

Bitdefender Recognized as a Major Player in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide MDR Service for Midmarket

bsussman@bitdefender.com (Bruce Sussman) — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT

With several hundred vendors offering MDR services worldwide, it’s difficult to create an accurate short list of MDR providers worth considering for your organization. Yes, AI can create a list in seconds, but is the information trustworthy, or just more AI slop? Figuring it out takes time, which defeats the purpose. That’s why unbiased third-party evaluations are critical, like the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Managed Detection and Response Service for Midmarket*.

Are You Falling for the Privacy Illusion?

bsussman@bitdefender.com (Bruce Sussman) — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:43:52 GMT

Most of us think privacy is a setting.

What’s New in GravityZone July 2026 (v 6.75)

Grzegorz Nocoń — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:29:12 GMT

Bitdefender rolled out new functionality in Bitdefender GravityZone, a unified cybersecurity platform that provides prevention, protection, detection, and response capabilities for organizations of all sizes. These features, consistent with our multi-layered security strategy, are intended to ease the workload of security analysts, administrators, and users.

Bind Link Abuse: One Windows Feature, Many Ways to Blind Your EDR

Martin Zugec — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:52:06 GMT

I’d like to thank my coauthors, Andrei-Marius Muntea, Andrei Mermeze, Radu-Marian Portase, and Vlad Lazar, for their invaluable contributions to this research.

Bitdefender Threat Debrief | July 2026

jbrown@bitdefender.com (Jade Brown) — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:35:47 GMT

After a Year at Number One, Qilin Ransomware Falls from the Top Spot

Trust Under Attack: How Deepfakes Are Rewriting Cybercrime

bsussman@bitdefender.com (Bruce Sussman) — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:30:06 GMT

What if your child called you asking for help after a car accident?

Your AI SOC Won’t Catch Ransomware by Itself

Cristina Anghel — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:15:05 GMT

Customers ask me how many analysts the MDR team still needs. The question implies AI has already made the answer “smaller.” Unfortunately, the organizations asking this question are usually the same ones that have not yet solved their telemetry gaps, their unmanaged endpoints, or their MFA coverage. They want AI to close problems that AI cannot see.