During a routine inspection of untrustworthy websites, our researchers found notifinfoback[.]com - yet another rogue webpage promoting browser notification spam. This site attempts to trick users into allowing it to deliver its notifications. Additionally, notifinfoback[.]com can cause redirects t
Our researchers discovered the extravideo[.]live rogue page while inspecting questionable websites. This webpage is designed to push browser notification spam and redirect visitors to other (likely untrustworthy/malicious) sites. Most users enter these webpages through redirects caused by pages us
Trusted-stream[.]life is one of the websites designed to trick visitors into allowing them to show notifications. Also, this page redirects visitors to other websites of this type. Typically, users do not open such pages on purpose. We discovered trusted-stream[.]life while visiting and examining
After examining this letter, our team concluded that it is a phishing scam where scammers attempt to extract personal information. It contains a hyperlink designed to open a phishing website. That website asks to provide login credentials. Thus, this email must be ignored. The email is dis
MotionCycle is a rogue app that our researchers discovered while inspecting new submissions to VirusTotal. Our analysis of this piece of software revealed that it works as adware and belongs to the AdLoad malware family. Advertising-supported software (adware) enables the placement of ad
RidgeWorld is an application distributed via fake installers. We discovered it after using an installer downloaded from a deceptive page. We learned that the purpose of RidgeWorld is to generate advertisements (it functions as adware). It is not a useful or legitimate app. Advertisements
During a routine inspection of untrustworthy sites, we discovered the beltrapurint[.]com rogue webpage. It operates by promoting browser notification spam and redirecting visitors to other (likely unreliable/malicious) websites. Users typically access beltrapurint[.]com and sites akin to it - via
While looking through new submissions to VirusTotal, our research team discovered the Skynet malicious program that is based on the Chaos ransomware. After we executed Skynet ransomware on our testing machine, it encrypted files and appended their filenames with an extension consisting of four ra
Getgadgets[.]online is a deceptive website that runs a fake survey and wants to display notifications. Our team discovered this page while inspecting other pages that use rogue advertising networks. Getgadgets[.]online is one of the many untrustworthy sites that should never be allowed to show not
During our routine check for malware samples submitted to VirusTotal, we discovered ransomware called blueKey. We learned that this malware encrypts files, appends the ".blueKey" extension to filenames, changes the desktop wallpaper, and drops the "DECRYPTION_INSTRUCTIONS.txt" file (a ransom note)