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How to Stop Scantowebprotection.online Ads
Scantowebprotection dot online is a misleading website that throws fake warning messages at its visitors. This particular site belongs to the category we call "fake virus warning message" pages. Landing on... Read more
Flame Ransomware Expands Chaos Clone Family To Encrypt Files & Extort Money
Flame ransomware is a newly discovered strain of file-encrypting malware that belongs to the Chaos ransomware family. Flame encrypts almost every file found on a system's connected local drives, then drops its ransom... Read more
How to Avoid Prime-scanner.com Ads
Prime-scanner dot com is a misleading website that displays scary but fake virus warnings to confuse visitors. This type of misleading page falls into the broader subcategory of "fake virus warning" misleading... Read more
Zate Ransomware is One More Djvu Clone
Zate ransomware is a new ransomware variant that expands the already large family of Djvu clones. The new Djvu variant encrypts files and behaves just like its siblings. The Zate ransomware will scramble databases,... Read more
Alltimesecuritysystem.live Pushes Ads Through Fake Warnings
Alltimesecuritysystem dot live is a misleading website that will attempt to frighten the user and get them to unwittingly accept ads from the page. Misleading websites of this kind are generally categorized as "fake... Read more
Watch Out for Mobile Apps Group Android Adware
Mobile apps Group is the collective name given to a number of malicious applications for Android. The four different applications belonging to the same group are called "Driver: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB", "Bluetooth Auto... Read more
Beware! Rar Ransomware is Not an Archive Utility
Rar ransomware is the name of a new strain of ransomware discovered in the wild that belongs to the VoidCrypt family of variants. As the name suggests, the ransomware uses the ".rar" extension as part of the changes... Read more
What is bDAT Ransomware?
bDAT is a new ransomware strain discovered in early November 2022. The new variant belongs to the Dharma ransomware family. When it executes on a victim system, bDAT encrypts most files found on it. This will include... Read more
'Email Security Update' Scam Hunts for Credentials
There is yet another scam on the loose on the Internet. The new campaign is called the "email security update" scam and it is distributed using waves of malicious spam phishing emails. The scam uses the same tired... Read more
Dom Ransomware Mentions No Ransom Amount
Dom ransomware is a piece of file-encrypting malware that can infect Windows machines. The ransomware does not belong to a specific family of clones. Dom encrypts most files found on the victim system and all... Read more
How to Avoid Newspoldays.site Ad Pop-Ups
Newspoldays dot site is a misleading website that uses simple tricks to confuse and rope visitors into accepting ads inside their browsers. The chief trick that Newspoldays dot site uses is presenting a fake anti-bot... Read more
Rovwer.exe Cryptominer Malware Abuses Victim Hardware
Rovwer.exe is the name of a malicious file that functions as a piece of cryptomining malware. Cryptominers are a subcategory of malware that will harvest the hardware resources of an infected system and exert them as... Read more
Zeus Ransomware is a New Chaos Clone Designed to Encrypt Files
A new variant of the Chaos ransomware has been spotted in the wild by researchers. The latest clone is called the Zeus ransomware. Zeus does what you would expect ransomware to do - it will encrypt nearly every file... Read more
Streamic Rogue Browser Extension Renders Rogue Ads
Streamic is a rogue browser extension that is distributed using rogue ads and bad redirects to third-party pages. The extension acts as adware and can modify data on pages you browse, allowing it to both embed ads in... Read more
What Does InitialConnection Mac Adware Do?
InitialConnection is the name of an ad-supported app that works on Mac systems. App-supported apps are also referred to as "malware". InitialConnection belongs to the AdLoad family of adware clones. InitialConnection... Read more
Zatp Ransomware is a New Djvu Family Member
Zatp is the name of a file-encrypting strain of malware, also known as ransomware. The new variant belongs to the family of ransomware variants based on Djvu ransomware code. Zatp will affect most files found on an... Read more
What Does ActiveAnalyzer Mac Adware Do?
ActiveAnalyzer is the name of an ad-supported application for Mac computers. Ad-supported apps are also referred to as adware. ActiveAnalyzer belongs to the family of AdLoad adware clones. The application uses the... Read more
Feg Ransomware Copies Xorist & Targets Russian PC Users
Feg is the name of a new ransomware strain that belongs to the Xorist family of ransomware clones. Feg behaves the same as most ransomware clones. It will encrypt files on the targeted system's drives and change their... Read more
