Discovered by Marcelo Rivero, GandCrab 5.0.9 is a variant of a high-risk ransomware-type infection called GandCrab. Like most viruses of this type, it is designed to encrypt data, rendering affected files unusable. It renames each encrypted file by appending the victim's ID to the file extension (
"Correspondence Email Virus" is a spam email campaign that cyber criminals (scammers) use to distribute a high-risk virus called LokiBot (a computer infection that steals data). In this case, scammers proliferate the virus by sending a banking-related email message that contains a malicious attach
The internet is full of untrustworthy, rogue websites. An example is defpush.com, which is very similar to many other websites of this type such as sociatemethio.club, special-promotion.online, and nuclearlytu.info. People do not generally visit websites such as defpush.com intentionally - they a
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"Programmer known in darkweb" is a spam email campaign that scammers use to trick people into believing that their computers have been infiltrated with a virus that has allowed cyber criminals to monitor their activities. Generally, scammers behind these emails claim that they have obtained compr
"Activate your Windows now" is just one of many fake messages displayed on various deceptive websites. In this case, it is a fake Windows Security alert message. Generally, people do not visit these deceptive and untrustworthy websites intentionally - they are redirected to them by potentially un
sociatemethio.club is another rogue website designed to redirect visitors to other dubious sites. Generally, users arrive at this site inadvertently - potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) redirect them to it. PUAs are often installed unintentionally, since they feed users with advertisements
According to the developers, the PremierOpinion app monitors browsing activity. In exchange for allowing PremierOpinion to perform this function, users are supposedly rewarded with access to certain software, entries to "sweepstakes", and other benefits. In fact, developers proliferate PremierO
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