The purpose of BoostSign is to generate advertisements and promote a fake search engines/hijack browsers (by changing their settings). It is uncommon for apps like BoostSign to be downloaded and installed by users on purpose. Thus, they are categorized as potentially unwanted applications (PUAs)
Svpni.cyou is the address of a deceptive website, which promotes various scams. At the time of research, it ran a scheme in Swedish stating that hackers are currently monitoring the user, and another one claiming that their Internet connection was not secure. Scams of this type typically aim to
News-lipaze[.]cc is an untrustworthy website sharing many similarities with positivestar.org, 761d.site, ositieonthat.space, and thousands of others. It is designed to present visitors with dubious content and/or redirect them to other (likely unreliable or malicious) sites. Such rogue webpages a
Ib-search.com is a fake search engine that shows results generated by other (trustworthy and untrustworthy) search engines. Most fake search engines are promoted through browser hijackers. Usually, users download and install apps of this type inadvertently. Thus, they fall into the category of p
Gettingyourcontent[.]com is a website designed to promote shady, potentially malicious sites and to lure visitors into allowing it to show notifications. There are plenty of pages like this one on the Internet, for example, mailclick[.]biz, to2s[.]biz, and wholedailyfeed[.]com. This page d
Positivestar[.]org is a rogue site that hosts dubious content and redirects visitors to other (likely untrustworthy or malicious) websites. The Internet is full of such webpages; news-gemara.cc, get-positive.net, apel.top, news-themes.com - are just some examples. Rogue sites are typically access
This email scam is used to trick recipients into believing that their computers have been hacked and important files have been downloaded to a remote server controlled by hackers. Scammers behind it claim that the downloaded files will be published on their website if victims do not pay a certain
"Robux Generator" is a scam promoted on various deceptive websites. This scheme offers to generate an unlimited amount of Robux (in-game currency) for the Roblox online game platform and game creation system. It must be emphasized that this generator is fake and cannot generate Robux. This fraudul
Medusabtc is part of the Xorist ransomware family. It blocks access to files (encrypts them) and generates two ransom notes (displays pop-up window and creates "HOW TO DECRYPT FILES.txt" file). Also, Medusabtc appends ".medusabtc" extension. For example, it renames "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.medusabtc", "2
Yhlgaopimd is a malicious program belonging to the Snatch ransomware family. It is designed to encrypt data and demand payment for the decryption. In other words, this malware renders files inaccessible and asks for ransoms to restore access to the data. Affected files are appended with a ".yhlga