PAYMENT belongs to the Phobos ransomware family. It is designed to encrypt files, rename each encrypted file, display a ransom message, and create the "info.txt" text file (second ransom message). PAYMENT renames files by adding the victim's ID, the ICQ username of its developers, and appending t
"Advance Payment Received" is a spam email campaign. This term refers to a mass-scale operation, during which thousands of deceptive emails are sent. The messages sent through this spam campaign are presented as notifications concerning a purchase order. Note that "Advance Payment Received" email
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"Cisco WebEx virus" is a generic term used to describe unwanted and malicious software, distributed and disguised as content relating to Cisco Webex products. Cisco Webex is the name of a legitimate company developing web conferencing and videoconferencing software, notably Webex Meetings, Webex
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The HDMovieSearch browser hijacker promotes hdmoviesearch.com, the address of a fake search engine. Like most sites of this type, it achieves this by changing browser settings without users' permission. This app can also read browsing-related information. Note that browser hijackers are often dow
GetPDFConverterSearch is a browser hijacker. Following successful infiltration, it makes modifications to browser settings to promote getpdfconvertersearch.com (a bogus search engine). Additionally, this browser hijacker has data tracking capabilities, which are used to collect browsing-related in
Parasite ransomware encrypts victims' files and appends the ".parasite" extension to filenames. For example, "1.jpg" is renamed to "1.jpg.parasite", "2.jpg" to "2.jpg.parasite", and so on. Parasite also creates the "@READ_ME_FILE_ENCRYPTED@.html" file (ransom message) in all folders that contain e
Sz40 is malicious software categorized as ransomware. Systems infected with this program have their data encrypted and users receive ransom demands for decryption. There are two variants of this ransomware: one appends affected files with the ".sz40" extension, whilst the other does not alter file
Generally, email lottery scams such as this one are used to trick people into believing that they have won a certain sum of money in a lottery. They then attempt to persuade people to pay "processing fees" or "transfer charges" so that the winnings can supposedly be distributed. People who fall f