Computeradshub[.]com is a website designed to trick visitors into agreeing to receive its notifications. Also, it can redirect visitors to other (similar) pages. Our team has discovered computeradshub[.]com while analyzing pages that use rogue advertising networks. Computeradshub[.]com dis
Our team has discovered an application named AdvancedControl while inspecting a deceptive page offering to update the Adobe Flash Player. After installing and examining AdvancedControl, we found that this app operates as adware - it displays unwanted/intrusive advertisements. Clicking on
Fast PDF Reader is a rogue browser extension that our researchers discovered while inspecting deceptive download webpages. This piece of software is promoted as a free file reader capable of opening PDF, DOC, XLS, and PPT formats. After analyzing Fast PDF Reader, we determined that it is adware.
While inspecting deceptive websites, our researchers discovered the "BlockAll - block ads" browser extension. Its promotional material endorses this extension as an ad-blocking tool (adblocker). After analyzing "BlockAll - block ads", we determined that it operates as advertising-supported softwar
Onlineportalsite[.]com is a deceptive website that runs the "McAfee - Your PC is infected with 5 viruses!" scam. Also, it asks for permission to show notifications. Typically, websites like onlineportalsite[.]com are promoted using questionable methods. Our team has discovered this page while insp
While inspecting untrustworthy sites, our research team found the aytonus[.]com deceptive webpage. This website is designed to load scams and redirect visitors to other (likely unreliable/malicious) pages. Most users enter webpages like aytonus[.]com via redirects caused by sites using rogue ad
During a routine inspection of untrustworthy websites, our researchers found the news-gocuco[.]cc rogue site. It operates by promoting deceptive content, pushing browser notification spam, and redirecting visitors to different (likely unreliable/malicious) pages. Most users enter them via redirect
VistaQuantum is a rogue application that we discovered while inspecting new submissions to VirusTotal. Our analysis of this piece of software revealed that it operates as adware. Additionally, VistaQuantum belongs to the AdLoad malware family. Adware enables the placement of third-party
After analyzing this email, we found that its purpose is to trick recipients into infecting their computers with a remote access Trojan named BitRAT. It is disguised as a letter from Amazon and contains a malicious attachment (a malicious disk image file). The email claims that a package h
WORLD GRASS (also known as EarthGrass/EarthGress) is a ransomware-type program that our research team found while inspecting new submissions to VirusTotal. After launching a sample of this ransomware on our test machine, we learned that it encrypts files and appends their filenames with a ".34r7h