Typically, the main purpose of phishing scams is to trick recipients into clicking on a website link that opens some deceptive page asking to enter personal information, or downloads malware, or opening an attachment that installs malicious software. Simply said, cyber criminals use phishing email
Image Search is a piece of rogue software, endorsed as a tool for easy access to image databases. To elaborate, this product allows users to search for images on Unsplash, Creative Commons, Pinterest, Pexels, and PixaBay - by highlighting text on any website and opening the right-click menu. Howe
"MAC Malware Warning Alert !" is a fake pop-up error message claiming that the victim's computer has been infected. This message is usually delivered by a deceptive website, to which users are redirected by various adware-type applications that specifically target the Mac OS. These deceptive ap
Sharing many similarities with captcha2020.com, itabsolan.com, withoughtc.top, and thousands of others, znews-live[.]com is a rogue website. Visitors to it are presented with dubious content and/or are redirected to other untrustworthy/malicious pages. Most users unintentionally access sites of t
Browser hijacker is a type of potentially unwanted application (PUA) that modifies a web browser's settings to promote a specific address (in most cases, some fake search engine). In other words, it redirects users to an address or multiple addresses that they had no intention of visiting. The Se
EDP Group (Energias de Portugal) is a Portuguese electric utilities company. Research shows cybercriminals are spreading phishing emails disguised as letters from this company with a purpose to trick recipients into downloading and extracting a ZIP archive file, and then opening the extracted mali
"Synchronize Mail Error" refers to an email spam campaign. This term refers to a large-scale operation during which deceptive emails are sent by the thousand. The letters distributed through this campaign notify recipients that they have a number of pending emails. The messages are supposedly wit
Periox is a piece of malicious software that is classified as ransomware. It is designed to encrypt data and demand payment for the decryption. During the encryption process, affected files are appended with the ".periox" extension. For example, a file originally named something like "1.jpg" woul
Package Tracker Express is a piece of rogue software, which is endorsed as a tool for easy access to package/mail tracking services. It operates by making modifications to browser settings - to promote the packagetrackerexpress.com fake search engine. Due to its behavior, Package Tracker Express
Ceprolad (also known as Behavior:Win32/Ceprolad.A) is high-risk trojan-type virus that stealthily infiltrates the system and performs malicious actions. Note is that this malware behaves differently on each computer infiltrated, since developers control Ceprolad via a remote server. Trojan-t