"Chrome search contest 2022" is a pop-up scam delivered by a deceptive website. It displays fake messages to trick unsuspecting visitors into providing personal information. As a rule, scams of this type are promoted through websites that use questionable advertising networks (users do not open th
ImmersiveTask is a piece of software with adware and browser hijacker abilities. Since users typically download/install such apps unintentionally, they are also classified as PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications). Adware displays pop-ups, surveys, banners, and other intrusive advertis
Tobepartou.com is a fake search engine promoted through a browser hijacker called Properties (and other apps of this type). The installer ("CS_installer.exe") for Properties browser hijacker is distributed using a deceptive website, download pages for cracked software, YouTube downloaders.
Belonging to the Babuk Locker ransomware family, Cyber is a piece of malicious software designed to encrypt data (render files inaccessible) and demand payment for the decryption. Files are appended with a ".cyber" extension. For example, a file initially titled "1.jpg" would appear as "1.jpg.cyb
Eeyee is ransomware - malicious software that prevents victims from accessing files by encrypting them. Additionally, it renames files by appending a string of random characters and the ".eeyee" extension to filenames and creates the "6pZZ_HOW_TO_DECRYPT.txt" text file containing a ransom note. A
"McAfee - Your PC might be vulnerable" is a scam run on various rogue sites. While it is used to endorse the genuine McAfee anti-virus software, this promotion is not created by McAfee Corp. (the developers of McAfee anti-virus) but affiliates seeking to obtain illegitimate commissions. It is not
Myhypeposts[.]com is a deceptive website designed to trick visitors into enabling its browser notifications. Additionally, it can redirect users to other dubious and malicious sites. Most visits to myhypeposts.com occur through webpages using rogue advertising networks. How sites like myhy
Checkthesafety[.]com is an untrustworthy website asking for permission to show notifications and displaying deceptive content. There is a great number of pages like checkthesafety[.]com, for example, mydesktopdefence[.]com, security-scanner[.]xyz, kap03ut-editi56on[.]xyz. Typically, users do not o
EffectiveVision is an adware-type app with browser hijacker functionalities. Furthermore, software products of this type are also categorized as PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications) due to the dubious techniques used to distribute them. Adware is designed to display various intrusive
Nqhd is ransomware that belongs to the Djvu family. It encrypts files and modifies their filenames (by appending the ".nqhd" extension). For example, it renames "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.nqhd", "document.txt" to "document.txt.nqhd", and so on. Nqhd provides contact and payment information in the "_readme.