ForwardOpen is yet another adware-type application endorsed as tool that improves the browsing experience by providing fast searches, accurate search results, and similar. This app operates by running intrusive advertisement campaigns (it displays unwanted, annoying, and even harmful ads). Furt
Wenfuntoday is a family of scam websites designed to promote untrustworthy applications. This variant endorses the Smart Mac Booster app, a rogue product classified as a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA). Scam websites operate by employing various scare tactics to trick visitors into downlo
Lulz ransomware is malicious software designed to encrypt data with the AES-256 encryption algorithm, change the victim's wallpaper, rename encrypted files, and create a ransom message. It renames all files by adding the ".Lulz" extension to filenames. For example, "1.jpg" becomes "1.jpg.Lulz". I
Virtually identical to search.turdeland2.com, search.newsflashapp.com, search.mapsglobalsearch.com, and many others, home.specialtab.com is a fake search engine. It supposedly enhances the browsing experience by generating improved search results. Most fake web searchers are unable to provide a
SDBbot is the name of a remote access trojan (RAT). Typically, cyber criminals try to infect computers with software of this type to take control of them remotely and perform various actions. In most cases, they use RATs to steal sensitive information and/or infect computers with additional malwar
Belonging to the Dharma/Crysis malware family, One is malicious software categorized as ransomware. This program was discovered by Jakub Kroustek and operates by encrypting data and demanding ransom payments for decryption. When the encryption process is underway, all files are renamed with a uni
GlobeImposter (.Btc) is malicious software belonging to the GlobeImposter ransomware family. It is designed to encrypt data and demand ransom payments from victims for decryption (i.e., payment for decryption software/tools). During encryption, all files are renamed with the ".btc" extension. The
Файл Зашифрован is the name of ransomware and a new, similar variant of WannaCash. This ransomware encrypts files and compresses them into the .zip format. Victims cannot access their files without a unique key, which can be purchased only from the cyber criminals who designed Файл Зашифрован.
There are many ransomware-type programs online, including .FC, which is a new variant of Paradise ransomware and discovered by mol69. Like many programs of this type, .FC encrypts files (rendering them unusable) and creates a ransom message with instructions about how to restore files. In this ca
The pop-up message "hmopt will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash" is linked to the MacOptimizer application. Files relating to Hmopt originate from the installation of this rogue app. This is more commonly experienced by users with the Catalina version of MacOS (Mac Operatin