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AboutExtended Adware (Mac)
Mac Virus

AboutExtended Adware (Mac)

AboutExtended displays advertisements and changes web browser's settings to promote a fake search engine. It has the qualities of adware and a browser hijacker. Users download and install apps of this kind inadvertently. Therefore, AboutExtended and similar apps fall into the category of potenti

Speed Check Adware
Adware

Speed Check Adware

Speed Check is supposed to check the speed of websites. Although, it is known that this program functions as adware (it displays advertisements) and can read, and change data on visited websites. Speed Check is promoted on a dubious website. Therefore, it is categorized as a potentially unwanted a

Poison Ransomware
Ransomware

Poison Ransomware

Poison is the name of malware designed to encrypt files, append the ".poison" extension to their filenames, and display a pop-up window and the "___RECOVER__FILES__.poison.txt" file containing a ransom note. For instance, it renames a file named "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.poison", "2.jpg" to "2.jpg.poison"

Landingpagesecure.com POP-UP Scam (Mac)
Mac Virus

Landingpagesecure.com POP-UP Scam (Mac)

Landingpagesecure[.]com is a website promoting various scams. At the time of research, this page ran a scam claiming that visitors' Apple mobile devices had been infected. Most schemes of this type aim to endorse untrustworthy software, e.g., fake anti-viruses, adware, browser hijackers, and ot

Captcha-smart.top Ads
Notification Spam

Captcha-smart.top Ads

Sharing similarities with ositieonthat.space, news-hoyisa.cc, emoxan.xyz, and many others, captcha-smart[.]top is a rogue site. It is designed to present visitors with dubious content and/or redirect them to different (likely unreliable or malicious) webpages. Users typically enter rogue sites vi

Uboungera.com Ads
Notification Spam

Uboungera.com Ads

The purpose of uboungera[.]com is to get permission to show notifications and promote questionable websites. There are hundreds of pages like uboungera[.]com, for example, yarriedstron[.]xyz, news-hoyisa[.]cc, and stream-best-vid[.]com. Uboungera[.]com asks for permission to show notificat

Yverworkedt.xyz Ads
Notification Spam

Yverworkedt.xyz Ads

Yverworkedt[.]xyz uses a clickbait technique to get permission to show notifications and promotes shady websites. It is uncommon for pages like yverworkedt[.]xyz to be visited on purpose. Most of them are promoted through potentially unwanted apps (PUAs), dubious ads, other shady pages. Yv

Ositieonthat.space Ads
Notification Spam

Ositieonthat.space Ads

Ositieonthat[.]space is a rogue website sharing common traits with news-hoyisa.cc, financesurvey24.top, aclientirethe.xyz, and countless others. It is designed to host dubious content and/or redirect visitors to various (typically, unreliable or malicious) sites. Rogue webpages are seldom accesse

1aevj Ransomware
Ransomware

1aevj Ransomware

1aevj is a piece of malicious software classified as ransomware. It operates by encrypting data (rendering files unusable) and demanding ransoms for the decryption. Encrypted files are appended with a random character string and a ".1aevj" extension. For example, a file initially titled "1.jpg" w

Aram Ransomware
Ransomware

Aram Ransomware

Aram is part of the VoidCrypt ransomware family. It encrypts files, changes their filenames, and creates the "Decrypt-info.txt" file (ransom note). Aram renames files by appending the dataunlock@criptext.com email address, a string of random characters and the ".Aram" extension. For example, it r