Our researchers encountered the "Install the extension for Chrome to protect your privacy" scam while inspecting browser notifications delivered by various questionable sites. Specifically, an ad delivered by important-incoming-news[.]com that promoted a website running the scam in question. Typi
When searching VirusTotal for new malware submissions, our researchers found yet another malicious program belonging to the Dharma ransomware family. This ransomware-type program is called MTX. On our test system, this malware encrypted files and appended their titles a unique ID, the cyber crimi
We have encountered the "McAfee: SECURITY ALERT" fake virus notification displayed by a deceptive website while visiting other pages that use rogue advertising networks. This scam is similar to many other scams that our team has discovered before. Websites of this type (fake notifications displaye
Our researchers found bestfaustcaptcha[.]top when analyzing shady websites. This page is a typical example of browser notification spam promotion. In addition to pushing its notifications, bestfaustcaptcha[.]top can redirect visitors to other questionable/malicious sites. We accessed this webpage
We have found the Security Suite adware while checking shady websites (Security Suite has an official download website too). We examined the deceptive page promoting Security Suite and noticed that it displays a fake message disguised as a notification from the Chrome browser. That message claims
Polizia Di Stato is the ransomware that we discovered while analyzing samples submitted to VirusTotal. While testing this ransomware variant, we have learned that it encrypts files, appends the ".polizia" extension to filenames (for instance, renames "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.polizia", "2.jpg" to "2.jpg.p
After installing this suspicious browser extension, our researchers classified Test Certificate as adware. While this piece of software claims to provide the service of easy website verification, it operates by running intrusive advertisement campaigns instead. Our research also revealed that Test
Louses[.]net is a deceptive website that has been discovered by our malware researchers while visiting several torrent sites and illegal video streaming websites. At the time of the research, louses[.]net displayed a fake CAPTCHA and redirected to a virtually identical page (maxy-tax[.]com).
During a routine exploration of questionable websites, our researchers detected windows-secureit[.]com - a page that promotes the "McAfee - Your PC is infected with 5 viruses!" scam. This site also pushes its browser notifications and can redirect visitors to other unreliable/malicious webpages.
PreviewInteractive is the name of adware that we have discovered on a deceptive website that displayed a fake notification suggesting that Adobe Flash Player is out of date. Once we executed a fake installer, it installed PreviewInteractive - an application that started displaying unwanted ads a