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SmartProducts Adware (Mac)
Mac Virus

SmartProducts Adware (Mac)

Our team has discovered the SmartProducts application while analyzing the samples submitted to VirusTotal. After examining the app, it was found that it generates advertisements - SmartProducts is an advertising-supported application. A big part of apps like SmartProducts is promoted and (or) di

Your Antivirus Protection Has Expired POP-UP Scam
Phishing/Scam

Your Antivirus Protection Has Expired POP-UP Scam

We have discovered this pop-up scam while testing various websites that use rogue advertising networks (display shady ads and redirect visitors to untrustworthy pages). We concluded that the purpose of this pop-up scam is to trick visitors into believing that their computers are infected with malw

Your System Has Been Hacked With A Trojan Virus Email Scam
Phishing/Scam

Your System Has Been Hacked With A Trojan Virus Email Scam

After examining the email, we have concluded that it is one of those scams used to scare recipients into transferring money to scammers. Scammers behind it attempt to trick recipients into believing that their computers are infected. They urge recipients to transfer a specified amount of Bitcoin t

Ukrainian Government Is Embracing Digital Assets Email Scam
Phishing/Scam

Ukrainian Government Is Embracing Digital Assets Email Scam

After examining this email, our team has found that scammers behind it are pretending to raise money for Ukraine - they are taking advantage of the crisis to trick recipients into sending them money. This is not the first time scammers are exploiting the situation. Recently, lots of scammers were

Babesroulette.com Ads
Notification Spam

Babesroulette.com Ads

Babesroulette[.]com is a rogue webpage designed to promote questionable content, push browser notification spam, and redirect visitors to other (likely untrustworthy/harmful) sites. Our research team discovered this page during a routine inspection of shady websites. Visitors to babesroulette[.]c

Emicalcove.xyz Ads
Notification Spam

Emicalcove.xyz Ads

Discovered by our researchers while inspecting shady websites, emicalcove[.]xyz is a rogue page designed to push browser notification spam and redirect visitors to untrustworthy/malicious sites. Most users enter emicalcove[.]xyz and similar webpages via others that use rogue advertising networks.

Anime Ransomware
Ransomware

Anime Ransomware

Anime is the name of a ransomware-type program our research team discovered while checking out new submissions to VirusTotal. After launching a sample onto our test system, we learned that this ransomware appends the filenames of encrypted files with a ".anime" extension. For example, a file init

Satunians.com Ads
Notification Spam

Satunians.com Ads

Satunians[.]com is a website that our team has discovered while analyzing various illegal movie streaming, torrent sites, and similar pages that use shady advertising networks. It was found that satunians[.]com displays deceptive content to get permission to show notifications and opens untrustwor

Validate Now Email Scam
Phishing/Scam

Validate Now Email Scam

After analyzing the "Validate Now" email, we determined that it is a phishing email. This letter attempts to lure recipients into providing their email log-in credentials by claiming that their email accounts will be closed. The "Validate Now" letter states that the recipient's email accou

SearchTab Default Search Browser Hijacker
Browser Hijacker

SearchTab Default Search Browser Hijacker

Our malware researchers have discovered the SearchTab Default Search browser extension while examining questionable websites that use advertising networks. They found that this app promotes searchtab.xyz (a fake search engine) by changing the settings of a browser. Thus, it was concluded that Sear