Business Insights

Bitdefender Supported Operation KillSwitch: What the KillSec Takedown Changes for Defenders

Bitdefender Enterprise — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:11:59 GMT

Europol published the results of Operation KillSwitch on the first day of October 2026, following a targeted action against the KillSec ransomware group. The day prior, law enforcement took control of the group’s leak site and also brought five central servers under police control.

Your Cybersecurity Review Should Lead to Action: Here’s the New Playbook

Nicholas Jackson — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:15:04 GMT

A cybersecurity review should deliver more than a list of gaps.

Introducing AI Visibility and Control

Grzegorz Nocoń — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:15:00 GMT

A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed.

A developer adds a coding assistant as an editor extension, and nothing shows up in the installed programs list.

Someone downloads a local model runtime, a program that runs models directly on the machine instead of sending data to an external service, because they were told not to send company data outside.

Your Employees Are Adopting AI Faster Than You Can See It

ciordache@bitdefender.com (Cristian Iordache) — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:00:43 GMT

Cybersecurity spent the past decade learning to assume the breach. AI is forcing the industry to reconsider what must happen before one.

What’s New in GravityZone September 2026 (v 6.77)

Grzegorz Nocoń — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:00:06 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.

Bitdefender Achieves AV-Comparatives EPR Certified Leader with Noteworthy Results

Richard De La Torre — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:00:05 GMT

AV-Comparatives has published its Endpoint Prevention and Response (EPR) Comparative Report for 2026.

The New AI Arms Race Starts Before the Attack

bsussman@bitdefender.com (Bruce Sussman) — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:07:13 GMT

Artificial intelligence is creating a new attack surface organizations must secure. It’s defined by a collision of forces that make it complex:

Bitdefender Threat Debrief | September 2026

jbrown@bitdefender.com (Jade Brown) — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:34:25 GMT

The ShinyHunters Playbook: Widespread Extortion without Encryption

Why Are So Many Security Professionals Keeping Breaches Quiet?

bsussman@bitdefender.com (Bruce Sussman) — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:30:24 GMT

More than half of IT & cybersecurity professionals who experienced a breach in the past 12 months say they were told to keep it confidential, even when it was reportable.

CyberLeek: Extortion Built for an Audience, Not a Victim

jbrown@bitdefender.com (Jade Brown) — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:55:00 GMT

CyberLeekpositions itself as afinancially motivated extortionist group, taking part in the theft of data and intellectual property to intrigue an audience and grow potential revenue streams in the process.