Bitdefender Offers Removal Tool for Flamer-s Successor: Gauss

Bitdefender Offers Removal Tool for Flamer-s Successor: Gauss

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA — (Marketwire) — 08/10/12 — Bitdefender, the leading global company, has released a tool to find and remove traces of the Gauss malware, a complex financial espionage tool that hit the Middle East.The multi-module e-threat shares similarities with Flamer, another cyber-espionage tool discovered in the Middle East in May. However, while Flamer-s main purpose is to harvest data from industrial environments, Gauss is focused on stealing login credentials for eBanking, social