BloodFox is a ransomware-type program. It is designed to encrypt data (render files inaccessible) and demand payment for the decryption. In most infections of this type, compromised files are renamed; however, BloodFox does not alter filenames. Once the encryption is complete, a ransom note is dis
"Download the pending mails manually" is the name of an email spam campaign. These scam letters supposedly relate to undelivered emails, which recipients are urged to download. Instead, this spam mail tries to obtain account log-in credentials (i.e., passwords) through an attached phishing file.
Searchandshopping.org is a fake search engine. In most cases, fake search engines are promoted through browser hijackers designed to make changes in the settings of the hijacked browsers. Users often install apps of this type inadvertently. For this reason, they are called potentially unwanted app
Sweepstakessurvey[.]org is an untrustworthy website designed to load dubious content, push its browser notifications, and/or redirect visitors to other (likely unreliable and malicious) pages. There are thousands of such rogue sites on the Web; fresh-content.biz, allactualjournal.com, alert-defen
Sasmotia[.]com is an untrustworthy website designed to open other dubious sites and to lure visitors into agreeing to receive its notifications. It is uncommon for pages of this type to be visited intentionally. A couple of examples of other similar sites are fresh-content[.]biz, allactualjournal[
Dark place is a rogue browser extension promising to create a dark mode for simple websites. Instead, this piece of software operates as adware. Due to the questionable methods used to distribute adware-type products, they are also categorized as PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications). A
Encoded01 (also known as Sugar) is ransomware that encrypts files and creates the "BackFiles_encoded01.txt" file containing instructions on how to contact the attackers. It also appends the ".encoded01" extension to filenames. For example, it renames "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.encoded01", "2.jpg" to "2.jpg
V4cnyy is a piece of malicious software categorized as ransomware. It is designed to encrypt data (render files inaccessible) and demand ransoms for the decryption. Affected files are appended with a ".v4cnyy" extension. For example, a file initially named "1.jpg" would appear as "1.jpg.v4cnyy",
Ytop1[.]com is an untrustworthy website designed to allow users to convert videos from media platform links (e.g., YouTube, Facebook, etc.) - to downloadable audio (MP3) files. This site infringes copyright laws, but it also employs rogue advertising networks as a monetization technique. These net
The purpose of protectnconnection[.]icu page is to trick its visitors into downloading (and then installing) a potentially unwanted application (PUA) that is supposed to remove detected viruses. Protectnconnection[.]icu is an untrustworthy page that uses a scare tactic to promote questionable so