14 Facts About Bitdefender

Bitdefender is a Romanian cybersecurity technology company headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, with offices in the United States, Europe, Australia and the Middle East.

Bitdefender develops and delivers cybersecurity products and services, including endpoint protection, cloud and managed security, antivirus software and IoT security.

Bitdefender software was originally developed by SOFTWIN and sold as AVX from 1996 until 2001, when its name was changed.

Bitdefender develops and markets cybersecurity products and services for companies and consumers including endpoint protection, extended detection and response, multi-cloud security, and managed detection and response, antivirus software, IoT security, VPN and privacy services.

Bitdefender delivers most of its products and services to Managed Services Providers or to System Integrators.

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Bitdefender advises Europol's European Cybercrime Centre in supporting investigations into criminal activity in cyberspace, sharing relevant data and knowledge about disruption, prevention, investigation and prosecution.

Bitdefender is involved in ongoing cooperation with international law enforcement actors such as local, regional and international police offices to support the fight against crime.

Bitdefender is part of the Cybersecurity Tech Accord for a safer online world, a collaboration among global technology companies committed to protecting their customers and users and helping them defend against malicious threats.

Bitdefender has won a number of awards from AV-Comparatives, an anti-virus assessment firm.

Bitdefender representatives announced the removal of the faulty update and a workaround for the users affected, except for those using the 2008 version.

In 2021, Bitdefender was accused of self-promotion when releasing and publicly announcing a decryptor to the detriment of actual victims with regards to DarkSide, a hacking group.

At about the same time, Bitdefender researchers developed a decryptor and issued a blog post in January 2021 describing the flaw and offering the decryptor as a free download, in order to make as many organizations as possible aware of its existence to reduce the impact of Darkside ransomware attacks.

Second, the blog post tipped off DarkSide as to the nature of the flaw; DarkSide promptly patched the bug and sarcastically thanked Bitdefender for pointing it out, then went on with their campaign of extortion.

In September 2021, Bitdefender published a universal decryptor utility that will help past victims of the REvil ransomware recover their encrypted files.