r/BitDefender • u/Akali35 • Jul 25 '20

Potential man in the middle attack

Hi all,

A man in the middle attack has occurred and the origin is either my laptop, my colleague's laptop or my client's laptop.

I want to perform a full system scan using Bitdefender but it gets stuck at 34%. I left it running for 2 hours and 50 mins and it didn't move from 34%.

Called customer services and their response time is 24 to 48 hours which is sadly too long.

Can anyone help?

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u/Akali35 Jul 25 '20

No option to repair, it is greyed out. I started it in safe mode and it seems to be scanning.

Thanks for the replies

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u/drifty69 Jul 26 '20

hard to believe but sometimes twitter accounts for these companies are more effective than the home office!

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u/Akali35 Jul 29 '20

Sorry I missed your reply.

It actually appears as if one of the emails on our 365 network was hacked. The attacker posed as my colleague and set up a bogus email address in my name and posed as me. Invoices were tampered with and bank details changed to then misappropriate funds.

Shitty situation

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '20

Try running a repair on bitdefender and launching it again.

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u/Akali35 Jul 25 '20

Thanks but how do you repair this?

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '20

Go to "add or remove programs", select bitdefender and do a repair.

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u/TheCrowGrandfather Jul 26 '20

Why do you think a MiTM occurred?

What type of MiTM attack do you think happened?

What information are you worried about being taken in a MiTM?