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What kind of website is profitsurvey[.]top?

Profitsurvey[.]top is a shady website that our team has discovered while examining torrent sites, illegal movie streaming pages, and other websites that use rogue advertising networks. We have analyzed profitsurvey[.]top and learned that it asks for permission to show untrustworthy notifications, displays a fake survey, and redirects to other shady pages.

What kind of scam is "Habib Bank AG Zurich"?

We have analyzed this email and found that scammers use it to trick recipients into providing email account login credentials. This email is disguised as a letter from Habib Bank AG Zurich - a Swiss multinational commercial bank. It contains an HTM file asking to verify email to view a payment receipt.

What is Letsgo600 ransomware?

Letsgo600 is a ransomware-type program designed to encrypt data and demand ransoms for the decryption. Our research team found it during a routine inspection of new malware submissions to VirusTotal. We have determined that Letsgo600 belongs to the ZEPPELIN ransomware family.

Once launched onto our test system, this ransomware encrypted files and appended their filenames with a ".@letsgo600 .[victim's_ID]" extension. For example, a file originally titled "1.jpg" appeared as "1.jpg.@letsgo600 .13D-8D4-F97", and so on. A different variant of this ransomware uses ".letsgo290" instead of ".@letsgo600".

Afterwards, a ransom-demanding message - "!!! ALL YOUR FILES ARE ENCRYPTED !!!.TXT" - was dropped onto the desktop.

What is ProcessRate?

Discovered by our researchers on VirusTotal, ProcessRate is an adware-type application. It also belongs to the AdLoad malware family. This app operates by running intrusive advertisement campaigns, and it may have other harmful abilities.

What kind of malware is Sorryitsjustbusiness?

We have discovered the Sorryitsjustbusiness ransomware while examining malware samples submitted to VirusTotal. Our team has analyzed Sorryitsjustbusiness and found that this ransomware encrypts files and appends a string of four random characters to filenames as the file extension. For example, it renames "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.bjeq", "2.jpg" to "2.jpg.8i9g".

Like most ransomware variants, Sorryitsjustbusiness provides a ransom note. It creates the "read_it.txt" text file and changes the desktop wallpaper. Both of them contain are ransom notes containing contact and payment information.

What is "Download all your blocked email messages"?

After inspecting the "Download all your blocked email messages" letter, our researchers determined that it is a phishing scam. This email makes false claims about incoming messages having failed to reach the recipient's mailbox, and it instructs to update the account to retrieve the letters.

What kind of application is is FlowSurplus?

Our team has discovered the FlowSurplus application while inspecting the samples submitted to VirusTotal. After analyzing the application, it was found that FlowSurplus is an advertising-supported application that displays intrusive advertisements. As a rule, apps of this type are distributed using deceptive methods.

What is Xenomorph malware?

Discovered by the cybercrime prevention company ThreatFabric, Xenomorph is an Android malware that targets banking information.

According to our research, this malicious program is still in the development stages. However, it already has over fifty European banks on its target list. This malware's operations include multiple financial/banking institutions in Belgium, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.

At the time of writing, Xenomorph was heavily distributed through a system performance-enhancing app available on the Google Play Store.

What kind of malware is LOCKFILE?

We have discovered the LOCKFILE ransomware while checking VirusTotal for recently submitted malware samples. After analyzing this ransomware, we learned that it encrypts files, appends ".LOCKFILE" extension to filenames, and generates three ransom notes: two pop-up windows and a text file named "ДЕБЛОКИРОВКА ФАЙЛОВ.txt".

Ransom notes are written in the Russian language. Thus, victims who do not have it installed see ransom notes written in gibberish. An example of how LOCKFILE modifies filenames: it renames "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.LOCKFILE", "2.exe" to "2.exe.LOCKFILE". Another detail about LOCKFILE is that it belongs to the Xorist ransomware family.

What kind of software is TaskCentral?

Our team has discovered the TaskCentral application while checking the samples submitted to VirusTotal. After analysis, it was concluded that TaskCentral is typical adware - it bombards users with unwanted advertisements. Typically, adware is distributed using deceptive methods.