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macOS.Macma Backdoor (Mac)
Mac Virus

macOS.Macma Backdoor (Mac)

macOS.Macma is the name of a malicious program designed to steal information and spy on its victims. While outdated Catalina macOS (Macintosh operating system) versions are particularly vulnerable to this malware, it has been observed successfully operating on the newest Monterey macOS releases

Hukelpfulin.xyz Ads
Notification Spam

Hukelpfulin.xyz Ads

Hukelpfulin[.]xyz is the address of a rogue website designed to load dubious content and/or redirect visitors to other (likely unreliable or malicious) pages. There are thousands of rogue sites online; earnmoneycrypt.com, hrougthatsidh.club, and ositieonthat.space are but a few examples. Users ty

Earnmoneycrypt.com Ads
Notification Spam

Earnmoneycrypt.com Ads

Earnmoneycrypt[.]com is an untrustworthy site similar to profitsurvey24.com, linkwinners.net, yourcoolfeed.com, news-befuka.cc, and many others. This rogue webpage is designed to load dubious content and/or redirect visitors to various (likely unreliable or malicious) websites. Most users enter p

Push-defenders.com Ads
Notification Spam

Push-defenders.com Ads

Push-defenders[.]com is used to promote questionable websites: it redirects visitors to those pages and promotes them via its notifications. Push-defenders[.]com is like tiontowriting[.]xyz, ewdownt[.]club, linkwinners[.]net, and hundreds of other pages. At the time of the research, push-d

Profitsurvey24.com Ads
Notification Spam

Profitsurvey24.com Ads

Akin to linodeobjects.com, verifyrobots.online, tiontowriting.xyz, and thousands of others, profitsurvey24[.]com is a rogue website. It operates by loading questionable/deceptive content and/or redirecting visitors to various (likely unreliable or malicious) webpages. Rogue sites are seldom acces

Khonsari Family Ransomware
Ransomware

Khonsari Family Ransomware

Khonsari is the name of a ransomware family that encrypts files and forces users to pay a ransom to get a decryption tool. It is known that it appends the ".khonsari" extension to filenames (for example, renames "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.khonsari", "2.jpg" to "2.jpg.khonsari") and generates a ransom note

Wvjg8 Ransomware
Ransomware

Wvjg8 Ransomware

Wvjg8 is a ransomware-type program. It encrypts data and demands payment for the decryption. Affected files are appended with a random character string and a ".wvjg8" extension, e.g., a file like "1.jpg" would appear similar to "1.jpg.qHdHdzwknF54g1MOx26COacBiHBZerGx50wCbKDoV37_rEbHR7vU3eo0.wvjg8"

Tropi.fun Ads
Notification Spam

Tropi.fun Ads

Tropi[.]fun can show notifications (if allowed) and redirect visitors to a number of potentially malicious pages. It has the same qualities as tiontowriting[.]xyz, ewdownt[.]club, luckydatingspot[.]top, and plenty of other similar pages that most users would never visit on purpose. Tropi[.

Linodeobjects.com Ads
Notification Spam

Linodeobjects.com Ads

Linodeobjects[.]com is a rogue website designed to load questionable content and/or redirect visitors to other (likely untrustworthy or malicious) pages. There are thousands of such sites on the Web; tiontowriting.xyz, linkwinners.net, and 761d.site are but a few examples. Users typically access

AdBlock Master Adware
Adware

AdBlock Master Adware

As its name suggests, AdBlock Master is supposed to block online advertisements. Ironically, this app itself generates advertisements. Software that displays unwanted ads is called adware. Typically, users download and install adware unknowingly. It is known that AdBlock Master is promoted using m