Typically, scammers behind sextortion email scams threaten to share embarrassing images or a video about the recipients. The main purpose of these scams is to trick recipients into believing that such images or a video exist and paying scammers money for not releasing the compromising material.
Lorenz is a new variant of the Sz40 ransomware. It is designed to encrypt data and demand ransoms for the decryption. In other words, Lorenz renders affected files inaccessible and asks victims to pay - to recover access to their data. During the encryption process, files are appended with the ".
SearchConsole is the name of an application that generates advertisements, changes affected web browser's settings, and possibly collects information about its users. This app has a functionality of an adware-type app and a browser hijacker. Typically, the main purpose of adware-type app
Typically, scammers behind phishing emails pretend to be legitimate companies, organizations to trick recipients into providing personal information (for example, login credentials, credit card details, social security numbers). This phishing email is disguised as a letter from Apple (App Store te
GameSearchly is a piece of rogue software categorized as a browser hijacker. It operates by making modifications to browser settings in order to promote (i.e., cause redirects) to the gamesearchly.com fake search engine. Furthermore, GameSearchly likely has data tracking abilities to spy on users
Stream-your-vids[.]com a website that checks visitor's geolocation and then loads deceptive content or opens a couple of untrustworthy websites. There are hundreds of websites similar to stream-your-vids[.]com, for example, play-new-vids[.]com, retressive[.]website, and byluxrayor[.]com. I
Scleriends[.]website is a rogue page designed to load dubious content and/or redirect visitors to other untrustworthy or possibly dangerous sites. There are thousands of rogue webpages on the Internet; play-new-vids.com, retressive.website, byluxrayor.com - are but a few examples. Users seldom ac
"Oxford Dictionary" is a rogue browser extension promoted as an easy access tool to the online version of the Oxford dictionary. However, it operates as adware. In other words, this piece of software delivers various intrusive advertisements. Additionally, this "Oxford Dictionary" extension has d
F1 is a ransomware belonging to the NEFILIM malware family. Systems infected with this malicious software experience data encryption and receive ransom demands for the decryption tools. In other words, F1 malware operates by locking victims' files in order to demand payment for access/use recovery
One of the most commonly used ways to deliver malware is to send emails with malicious links or files (attachments) in them. Cybercriminals behind this particular email attempt to trick users into downloading and opening a malicious document designed to install RustyBuer. Typically, emails