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What is CMA CGM email scam?

Typically, scammers use phishing emails to extract personal information from recipients. In most cases, they attempt to trick recipients into providing credit card details, social security numbers, login credentials, and other sensitive information. Most scammers disguise phishing emails as letters from legitimate companies.

What is Vn_os ransomware?

Vn_os is a type of malware that encrypts files and displays a pop-up window, and creates the "___RECOVER__FILES__.vn_os.txt" file (ransom notes). It renames encrypted files as well. Vn_os ransomware appends the ".vn_os" extension to their filenames. For example, it renames "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.vn_os", "2.jpg" to "2.jpg.vn_os".

What is PotPlayer?

PotPlayer is a rogue application endorsed as a multimedia player compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 7 and 8 operating systems. It is classified as adware. Following successful infiltration, PotPlayer begins running intrusive advertisement campaigns, delivering various unwanted and even harmful ads.

Due to the dubious methods used to promote this app, it is also classified as a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA). Additionally, most PUAs have data tracking capabilities, which are employed to monitor users' browsing activity, and this is likely to be the case with PotPlayer.

What is the vigilated[.]space site?

Vigilated[.]space is a rogue website sharing many similarities with notify.tk, allhugenewz.com, videoplayernow.com, and countless others. This page operates by loading questionable content and/or redirecting visitors to other sites (possibly malicious ones).

Users rarely enter rogue webpages intentionally. Most get redirected to them by intrusive adverts or installed PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications). Unwanted apps can infiltrate systems without explicit permission; hence, users may be unaware of their presence.

What is Win The New iPhone 12 scam?

The main purpose of this scam is to trick people into providing contact and other information that supposedly will be used to contact winners of the iPhone 12. Nobody ever wins anything through websites like this one, on the contrary, people who fall for such scams lose money, become victims of identity theft, lose access to personal accounts and/or encounter other issues.

What is AccessDefault?

AccessDefault is a piece of rogue software categorized as adware. It also has browser hijacker traits. This application operates by delivering intrusive advertisement campaigns and modifying browser settings in order to promote fake search engines. Additionally, AccessDefault has data tracking abilities, which are used to spy on users' browsing activity. Since most users download/install adware and browser hijackers inadvertently, they are classified as PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications).

What is linkvertise[.]com?

Linkvertise[.]com is a file-sharing website. While this service is legitimate, the site uses rogue advertising networks. Linkvertise[.]com has released a statement (which can be found below) regarding this matter; however, it is pertinent to mention that content (e.g., pages, apps, etc.) promoted through these advertising networks can be untrustworthy, deceptive, and even malicious.

Therefore, although a site itself may not host dubious/harmful material, users can encounter it via the advertising network. Employing advertising networks is a widely used website monetization technique, and the use of rogue ones is no less abundant; zippyshare.com, mp3convert.cc, up-load.io - are but a few examples of such sites. Due to how widespread these websites are, it is strongly advised to exercise caution when browsing.

What is Rar (Xorist) ransomware?

Rar is the name of a malicious program belonging to the Xorist ransomware family. It is designed to encrypt data and demand payment for the decryption. In other words, victims cannot access files affected by Rar (Xorist) ransomware, and they are asked to pay - to restore their data.

During the encryption process, files are appended with ".rar" extension (not to be confused with the RAR archive format). For example, a file initially titled "1.jpg" would appear as "1.jpg.rar", "2.jpg" as "2.jpg.rar", "3.jpg" as "3.jpg.rar", and so forth.

After the encryption process is complete, identical ransom notes are created/displayed in a pop-up window and "КАК РАСШИФРОВАТЬ ФАЙЛЫ.txt" text files, which are dropped into compromised folders. It is noteworthy that if the infected system does not have the Cyrillic alphabet installed - the text presented in the pop-up will appear as gibberish.

What is GameSearchWorld browser hijacker?

GameSearchWorld is a browser hijacker designed to promote the gamesearchworld.com address. Gamesearchworld.com is a fake search engine that does not generate any unique results. Most users download and install browser hijackers unintentionally. Therefore, apps of this type are called potentially unwanted applications (PUAs).

What is RemoteView?

RemoteView generates revenue for its developer by generating advertisements. Software that displays unwanted advertisements is called adware. It is uncommon for apps of this type to be downloaded and installed knowingly, intentionally. Apps that users download and install unknowingly are called potentially unwanted applications (PUAs).

Usually, PUAs are distributed in questionable ways. For example, through fake installers. It is important to mention that RemoteView can read sensitive information. Also, it changes web browser settings to promote a fake search engine. In other words, it functions as a browser hijacker.