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This Is A Secure Message Email Scam
Phishing/Scam

This Is A Secure Message Email Scam

After we inspected the "This Is A Secure Message" email, we determined that it is spam operating as a phishing scam. The fake letter states that a secure message has been sent to the recipient – thus attempting to trick them into disclosing their email account log-in credentials. The email

Suspicious Activities On Your Crypto Wallet Email Scam
Phishing/Scam

Suspicious Activities On Your Crypto Wallet Email Scam

While analyzing the email, our team found that it is a phishing attempt. The perpetrators behind the email intend to deceive recipients into revealing sensitive information on a fraudulent website. The email is designed to resemble a security alert from a cryptocurrency wallet service provider.

Typo Ransomware
Ransomware

Typo Ransomware

Our malware researchers detected Typo, a ransomware variant associated with the Djvu family, while inspecting malware samples submitted to VirusTotal. Ransomware is malware that encrypts files, and Typo is no exception. Moreover, this ransomware modifies filenames by appending the ".typo" extensio

Tyos Ransomware
Ransomware

Tyos Ransomware

During our analysis of Tyos, we determined that this malware operates as ransomware: it encrypts files and adds the ".tyos" extension to their names. Additionally, it creates a ransom note named "_readme.txt". Our team discovered this ransomware while examining malware samples submitted to the Vir

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Notification Spam

Smartreviewglobal.com Ads

Smartreviewglobal[.]com is a rogue webpage we discovered during a routine investigation of questionable sites. It is designed to promote scams and browser notification spam. Furthermore, this page is capable of redirecting visitors to different (likely unreliable/hazardous) sites. Users primarily

Cool Facts Browser Hijacker
Browser Hijacker

Cool Facts Browser Hijacker

Our researchers discovered Cool Facts while investigating rogue websites. This browser extension supposedly delivers interesting facts and allows users to get wallpapers, clocks, and other content for their new browser tabs. However, our inspection of Cool Facts revealed that it operates as a brow

F**ked Ransomware
Ransomware

F**ked Ransomware

While inspecting new submissions to VirusTotal, our research team discovered a malicious program named F**ked (title censored throughout the article, the asterisks stand for the letters "u" and "c", respectively). This program belongs to the Chaos ransomware family. Malware within the ransomware c

Webmail Account Maintenance Email Scam
Phishing/Scam

Webmail Account Maintenance Email Scam

"Webmail Account Maintenance" is a spam email presented as a notification from Webmail. The fake letter states that the recipient's email account will be blocked due to unresolved maintenance issues. This spam mail promotes a phishing website targeting email account log-in credentials. The

Zaraza Stealer
Trojan

Zaraza Stealer

Zaraza is the name of a stealer-type malware. Programs within this classification operate by extracting (stealing) information from infected systems and installed applications. Stealers can target specific details or a broad range of data. Regardless, malware like Zaraza poses serious threats to u

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Notification Spam

Ytgoconverter.com Ads

After examining ytgoconverter[.]com, we concluded that this page offers to download videos from YouTube, wants to show notifications, and uses shady advertising networks. It is important to mention that downloading videos from YouTube without permission from the copyright holder is generally not l