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Mitigating Supply Chain Attacks!

A single compromised supplier or trusted software update can become the entry point for a major cyber breach

Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting trusted vendors, software providers, and third-party partners to gain access to corporate environments. These attacks often bypass traditional security controls because they originate from legitimate and trusted sources.

In this Bitdefender white paper, you'll learn:

- How modern supply chain attacks work
- Common attack techniques and real-world examples
- Key risk mitigation strategies and best practices
- How Zero Trust, continuous monitoring, and threat detection help reduce exposure
- Practical steps to strengthen your organization's cyber resilience

As supply chain attacks continue to grow in sophistication, organizations must extend their security focus beyond their own perimeter and gain visibility across vendors, partners, and software dependencies.

Download the white paper:

https://techzone.bitdefender.com/en/white-papers/mitigating-supply-chain-attacks.html

In “Your Biggest Security Risk Isn’t Malware — It’s What You Already Trust,” we highlighted a critical shift in modern cyberattacks!

The most dangerous activity inside organizations no longer looks malicious.

It looks like normal administration.

PowerShell. WMIC. netsh. Certutil. MSBuild.

These are legitimate tools your IT teams rely on every day — and they have also become the preferred toolkit for modern attackers to move laterally, evade detection, escalate privileges, and operate silently inside trusted environments.

According to Bitdefender analysis of more than 700,000 high-severity incidents, legitimate-tool abuse was involved in 84% of attacks.

The challenge is no longer just detecting malware.

It’s understanding how trusted tools behave inside your own environment and identifying when that behavior starts to drift toward attacker tradecraft.

Your real attack surface is not only what is exposed externally.

It is also the collection of trusted tools, scripts, and behaviors already operating internally every day.

The organizations that reduce risk fastest are the ones that learn to distinguish normal administration from attacker behavior before compromise occurs.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/what-45-days-of-watching-your-own-tools.html

What 45 Days of Watching Your Own Tools Will Tell You About Your Real Attack Surface Trusted-tool abuse hit 84% of 700,000 incidents, driving 45-day assessments that reduce attack surface by 30%+.

Another strong industry recognition for Bitdefender

Bitdefender GravityZone Business Security Enterprise achieved 100% relevant telemetry coverage across all 14 attack steps in the AV-Comparatives 2026 EDR Detection Validation Certification Test.

Notably, Bitdefender was the only certified vendor to deliver complete chain-of-attack visibility.

A great reflection of the platform’s strong detection, visibility, and threat investigation capabilities for modern security operations.

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/businessinsights/bitdefender-gravityzone-achieves-100-percent-av-comparatives-2026-edr-test

Bitdefender GravityZone: 100% Telemetry in AV-Comparatives 2026 EDR Test Bitdefender GravityZone Business Security Enterprise recorded 100% relevant telemetry across all 14 attack steps in AV-Comparatives’ inaugural EDR Detection Validation Certification Test, published May 2026.

Introducing Extended Email Security

Email remains the primary vector for cyberattacks. A filter at the front door isn’t enough; you need deep visibility inside the mailbox and the ability to act even after an email has been delivered. Now you can, and it's all integrated into GravityZone.

Introducing Extended Email Security Email remains the primary vector for cyberattacks.

Introducing Proactive Hardening and Attack Surface Reduction (PHASR) for Linux and macOS

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/businessinsights/attack-surface-reduction-linux-mac-os-phasr?fbclid=IwZnRzaARcJ5ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEePbneELid5SiC5Swx2NVYBSOsn-Yi2N56gfbfIlDeIGxk578jx5vwXilrqlI_aem_q6AP6QWe1ncwIiALIQhhNQ

Introducing Proactive Hardening and Attack Surface Reduction (PHASR) for Linux and macOS As Linux dominates cloud-native infrastructure and macOS becomes the standard for high-value targets in development and executive leadership, the attack surface is no longer Windows-centric.

What is Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD)

https://techzone.bitdefender.com/en/tech-explainers/what-is-bring-your-own-vulnerable-driver--byovd-.html -ef48e2e6-e562-bdd0-9590-2ba90ebd3a3b

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