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). Venus Tab changes the h
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"Your Outlook Account was logged in" is the name of an email spam campaign. These emails claim that a suspicious log-in was detected on recipients' Outlook accounts. The goal of these fake letters is to promote a phishing website, which is disguised as an email account sign-in page. The sc
Crypyt is a malicious program that is part of the VoidCrypt ransomware family. It is designed to encrypt data (render files unusable) and demand payment for the decryption (access/use recovery). Affected files are appended with the cyber criminals' email address, a unique ID assigned to the victi
Phoenix is the name of an information stealer written in the C programming language. It sends the stolen information to cybercriminals. It is known that Phoenix is for sale on a hacker forum. Its lifetime subscription costs 1500 rubles, and a monthly one costs 400 rubles per month. Phoenix
Alert-defenders[.]com is a rogue website designed to present visitors with dubious content and/or redirect them to other (likely unreliable or malicious) pages. The Internet is rife with sites of this type; rplnd1.com, desktopshieldprotection.com, myfreshspot.com, ngecauuksehi.xyz, and smartcaptch
Mbrcodes is ransomware that encrypts data and changes the filenames of the encrypted files (it appends the ".mbrcodes--zip" extension). For example, it renames a file named "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.mbrcodes--zip", "2.jpg" to "2.jpg.mbrcodes--zip". Mbrcodes also creates a ransom note, the "HOW TO DECRYPT
LatestStructured is an adware-type app with browser hijacker abilities. Since most users unintentionally download/install software products of this kind, they are also classified as PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications). Adware enables the placement of pop-ups, coupons, surveys, banne
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Browser Guard is a rogue browser extension promising to protect users from accessing malicious and phishing websites. Instead, this piece of software is classified as adware due to running intrusive advertisement campaigns. Furthermore, adware-type products are also considered to be PUAs (Potentia