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Fresh-content.biz Ads

What is the fresh-content[.]biz website?

Fresh-content[.]biz is a rogue site akin to allactualjournal.com, rplnd1.com, myfreshspot.com, news-lipaze.cc, and countless others. It is designed to present visitors with dubious material and/or redirect them to different (likely unreliable or malicious) websites.

Users typically enter webpages of this kind via redirects caused by untrustworthy sites, intrusive adverts, or installed PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications).

   
Allactualjournal.com Ads

What is allactualjournal[.]com?

Allactualjournal[.]com is an untrustworthy website sharing common traits with alert-defenders.com, sweetadvance.ru, fugles.net, and many others. It operates by loading questionable content and/or redirecting visitors to various (likely suspect or malicious) sites.

Rogue webpages like allactualjournal[.]com as typically accessed via redirects caused by suspicious websites, intrusive ads, or installed PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications).

   
Systemupdati.xyz POP-UP Scam (Mac)

What is the systemupdati[.]xyz site?

Systemupdati[.]xyz is a deceptive website running various scams. At the time of research, this site promoted three schemes. One of the scams claims that visitors' iPhones may be vulnerable due to visits to dangerous sites; the other two - request users to install/update software to continue watching content in safe mode.

Scams of this type primarily endorse fake anti-viruses, adware, browser hijackers, and other PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications). In seldom cases, such schemes have been noted proliferating malware (e.g., ransomware, trojans, etc.).

Most users access scam webpages via redirects caused by rogue sites, intrusive advertisements, or PUAs installed onto their devices.

   
Venus Tab Browser Hijacker

What kind of application is Venus Tab?

Venus Tab is a browser hijacker designed to promote venustab.com - a fake search engine. Venus Tab hijacks a browser by changing its settings. In most cases, users install apps of this type unknowingly. Thus, they are called potentially unwanted applications (PUAs).

   
Fastbestcaptcha.top Ads

What kind of page is fastbestcaptcha[.]top?

Fastbestcaptcha[.]top uses a clickbait technique to trick visitors into allowing it to deliver notifications. It also redirects visitors to other dubious pages. There are hundreds of pages like fastbestcaptcha[.]top, for example, alert-defenders[.]com, rplnd1[.]com, news-bogixo[.]cc. Users do not visit them intentionally.

   
Your Outlook Account Was Logged In Email Scam

What is "Your Outlook Account was logged in" email scam?

"Your Outlook Account was logged in" is the name of an email spam campaign. These emails claim that a suspicious log-in was detected on recipients' Outlook accounts. The goal of these fake letters is to promote a phishing website, which is disguised as an email account sign-in page.

   
Crypyt Ransomware

What is Crypyt ransomware?

Crypyt is a malicious program that is part of the VoidCrypt ransomware family. It is designed to encrypt data (render files unusable) and demand payment for the decryption (access/use recovery).

Affected files are appended with the cyber criminals' email address, a unique ID assigned to the victim, and the ".crypyt" extension. For example, a file like "1.jpg" would appear similar to "1.jpg.[3ncrypter.m4n@gmail.com][MJ-AY4689321705].crypyt". Once this process is complete, a ransom note titled "Read-this.txt" - is dropped onto the desktop.

   
Phoenix Stealer

What type of malware is Phoenix?

Phoenix is the name of an information stealer written in the C programming language. It sends the stolen information to cybercriminals. It is known that Phoenix is for sale on a hacker forum. Its lifetime subscription costs 1500 rubles, and a monthly one costs 400 rubles per month.

   
Alert-defenders.com Ads

What is alert-defenders[.]com?

Alert-defenders[.]com is a rogue website designed to present visitors with dubious content and/or redirect them to other (likely unreliable or malicious) pages. The Internet is rife with sites of this type; rplnd1.comdesktopshieldprotection.com, myfreshspot.com, ngecauuksehi.xyz, and smartcaptchasolve.top are just some examples.

Users typically access rogue webpages via redirects caused by untrustworthy sites, intrusive advertisements, or installed PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications).

   
Mbrcodes Ransomware

What kind of malware is Mbrcodes?

Mbrcodes is ransomware that encrypts data and changes the filenames of the encrypted files (it appends the ".mbrcodes--zip" extension). For example, it renames a file named "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.mbrcodes--zip", "2.jpg" to "2.jpg.mbrcodes--zip". Mbrcodes also creates a ransom note, the "HOW TO DECRYPT FILES.txt" file.

   

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