Cyberone is a ransomware-type program. It is designed to encrypt data and make ransom demands for the decryption. After we executed a sample of this ransomware in our testing system, it appended the filenames of encrypted files with a ".cyberone" extension. For example, a file originally named "1.
Wikitravel is a travel guide based on the wiki format. Its website promotes an advertising-supported software (adware) called TravelSmart. The purpose of adware is to show annoying advertisements. It is known that it installs on computers as "TravelSmart - TravelSmart for Desktop" and runs in the
AnalogManager is a piece of rogue software that our researchers discovered while looking through new submissions to VirusTotal. After analyzing this app, we determined that it operates as adware. Additionally, AnalogManager is part of the AdLoad malware family. Adware stands for advertis
While examining software-saver[.]com, our team discovered that it is an untrustworthy page designed to trick visitors into believing that their computers are infected. This page runs the "McAfee - Your PC is infected with 5 viruses!" scam. Additionally, it wants to show notifications. This page (m
ThrillAlgorithm is the name of an application that we discovered while examining untrustworthy websites offering to download fake updates for the Adobe Flash Player. After downloading and installing ThrillAlgorithm, we found that it generates intrusive advertisements. Software of this type is ca
Our research team discovered the law-antivirus[.]com rogue site during a routine investigation of suspicious websites. This page endorses deceptive content, pushes browser notification spam, and redirects visitors to different (likely unreliable/malicious) sites. Most users access law-antivirus[.
"Please Confirm Your Account" is a spam email. Our inspection revealed that this letter operates as a phishing scam. It makes false claims about an email account filtering process that will eliminate inactive ones. Hence, the fake notification urges recipients to confirm their email accounts by lo
OnionPoison is the name of a campaign used to distribute malicious Tor Browser installers. Tor Browser is a legitimate browser that makes it more difficult to trace its user's Internet activity (it protects the user's privacy). Malicious Tor Browsers include a library infected with spyware that ga
While inspecting rogue webpages, our researchers discovered the "Surfshark - Your PC Is Infected With 5 Viruses!" scam. It states that Surfshark has detected viruses on users' devices. It must be emphasized that all these claims are fake, and this scam is in no way associated with the actual Surfs
While inspecting dubious websites, our research team discovered the defenderfordevice[.]com rogue page. It promotes deceptive content, pushes spam browser notifications, and causes redirects to other (likely untrustworthy/malicious) sites. Most users enter webpages like defenderfordevice[.]com th