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RATDispenser Malware
Trojan

RATDispenser Malware

RATDispenser is a piece of malicious software designed to cause chain infections. This JavaScript program is primarily used to infect systems with Remote Access Trojans (RATs). These trojans operate by enabling stealthy remote access and control over compromised machines. RATDispenser uses

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Notification Spam

New-updates-service.com Ads

New-updates-service[.]com is a rogue site designed to load dubious content, push its browser notifications, and/or redirect visitors to other (likely untrustworthy or malicious) webpages. The Internet is rife with such websites; totalnicefeed.com, yoursurveyprogram.com, and loopanews.com are but

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Notification Spam

Yourdailysecurity.com Ads

The purpose of yourdailysecurity[.]com is to promote questionable websites and get permission to deliver notifications. Plenty of pages share the same qualities, for example, totalnicefeed[.]com, yourdesktopguardian[.]com, yoursurveyprogram[.]com. One more thing that these pages have in common is

Perfect-Converter Browser Hijacker
Browser Hijacker

Perfect-Converter Browser Hijacker

Perfect-Converter is a browser hijacker that causes redirects to the perfect-converter.com fake search engine. Due to the questionable methods used to distribute browser-hijacking software products, they are also classified as PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications). Perfect-Converter ass

Prime Dark Adware
Adware

Prime Dark Adware

Prime Dark is the name of advertising-supported software that can show unwanted advertisements and read (and change) data on all websites. It is promoted using deceptive websites to trick users into installing it. Apps that users install unintentionally are called potentially unwanted applications

PACKAGE WAITING POP-UP Scam
Phishing/Scam

PACKAGE WAITING POP-UP Scam

It is a pop-up scam - a false/fraudulent message designed to trick users into taking certain actions. Usually, scammers behind it attempt to trick users into providing personal information, installing unwanted (potentially malicious) software, contacting scammers via the provided numbers, etc.

DirectConverterz Browser Hijacker
Browser Hijacker

DirectConverterz Browser Hijacker

DirectConverterz is a rogue browser extension that pushes the directconverterz.com fake search engine. It is classified as a browser hijacker, which in turn are considered to be PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications). Browser hijackers like DirectConverterz assign the addresses of fraudu

Ad Avenger Adware
Adware

Ad Avenger Adware

Ad Avenger is advertised as a program that blocks online advertisements, prevents trackers from profiling users, and restricts access to malicious pages. It is known that Ad Avenger is an advertising-supported program - it displays advertisements instead of blocking them. Ad Avenger genera

New Incoming Messages Placed On Hold Email Scam
Phishing/Scam

New Incoming Messages Placed On Hold Email Scam

"New Incoming Messages Placed On Hold" refers to an email spam campaign. These emails claim that recipients have pending messages, which they can either release into their inbox or ignore. The scam letters promote a phishing website targeting email account log-in credentials. The fake emai

Nero Cortex Ransomware
Ransomware

Nero Cortex Ransomware

Nero Cortex is a piece of malicious software classified as ransomware. It is designed to encrypt data (lock files) and demand payment for the decryption. Each affected file is appended with an extension consisting of four random characters. For example, a file titled "1.jpg" could appear similar