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What is "HP ePrint" email scam?

"HP ePrint Email Scam" refers to a spam campaign. These emails attempt to trick recipients into trying to log into their mail accounts through a phishing website - in order to view a fake scanned document sent to them. Therefore, by trusting these fake letters - recipients can lose their email accounts and experience other serious issues.

What is Macube Cleaner?

Macube Cleaner is advertised as a professional cleaning and optimization tool for macOS that can quickly clean up trash, old or large files, rarely used files and applications, free up disk space. However, this app is distributed questionable methods.

Therefore, it is likely that users who have installed Macube Cleaner on their computers did it unknowingly. Apps that users download and install inadvertently are called potentially unwanted applications (PUAs). It is not recommended to have PUAs installed on browsers or computers.

What is "Windows_Firewall_Protection_Alert"?

"Windows_Firewall_Protection_Alert" is a technical support scam promoted on various rogue websites. It makes fake claims about users' devices being infected with malware and urges them to contact Microsoft's support. It must be emphasized that this scam is in no way associated with the Microsoft Corporation, and all of its claims are false.

Scams are designed to generate revenue at victims' expense; tech support scams do so in various ways - mostly incorporating calls to fraudulent helplines and remote access to victims' devices. Furthermore, it must be stressed that no site can detect issues/threats present on visitors' computers; hence, all that make such statements - are scams.

What is Huylock ransomware?

Part of the MedusaLocker ransomware group, Huylock is a malicious program designed to encrypt data (render files inaccessible) and demand ransoms for the decryption.

During the encryption process, files are appended with the ".huylock" extension. For example, a file like "1.jpg" would appear as "1.jpg.huylock", "2.jpg" as "2.jpg.huylock", etc. Afterwards, a ransom note - "HOW_TO_RECOVER_DATA.html" - is dropped onto the desktop.

What is Qdla?

Qdla is the name of ransomware that is part of the ransomware family called Djvu. It encrypts files and modifies their filenames (it appends the ".qdla" extension to their filenames). Like most ransomware variants, Qdla creates a ransom note, the "_readme.txt" file containing contact and payment information.

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).

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).

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.

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).

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.