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PDFSearchHQ Browser Hijacker
Browser Hijacker

PDFSearchHQ Browser Hijacker

PDFSearchHQ is rogue software categorized as a browser hijacker. Following successful infiltration, it makes modifications to browser settings to promote pdfsearchhq.com (a bogus search engine). Additionally, PDFSearchHQ gathers browsing-related information. Since most users download/install brow

Mac Security Unwanted Application (Mac)
Mac Virus

Mac Security Unwanted Application (Mac)

As its name suggests, Mac Security is supposedly an antivirus application and has similar appearance to legitimate products. In fact, Mac Security does not detect any real threats or remove them. On the contrary, it opens potentially malicious websites. Therefore, this app should not be trusted,

Disk Clean Pro Unwanted Application (Mac)
Mac Virus

Disk Clean Pro Unwanted Application (Mac)

Disk Clean Pro is advertised as a highly-rated app that removes junk files and data (cleans redundant files) and keeps important files safe, however, this app is categorized as a potentially unwanted application (PUA). PUAs are classified in this way, since many users download and install them

Roboverify.xyz Ads
Notification Spam

Roboverify.xyz Ads

roboverify[.]xyz is an untrustworthy website sharing many common traits with sbecome.online, emindeed.top, sionremai.fun and thousands of others. This site presents visitors with dubious content and/or redirects them to other rogue and even malicious web pages. Few users enter these websites inte

Universal Medical Equipment Email Virus
Phishing/Scam

Universal Medical Equipment Email Virus

Generally, malspam emails contain a malicious attachment or download link for a malicious file. To trick recipients into downloading and opening this file, cyber criminals disguise their malspam emails as official messages from legitimate companies. If recipients download and open the malicious f

Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India Email Scam
Phishing/Scam

Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India Email Scam

"Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India" email scam - refers to a spam campaign, distributing deceptive messages that claim recipients have been selected to receive a significant sum of money. The term "spam campaign" defines a mass-scale operation during which thousands of scam emails are se

Nwithough.top Ads
Notification Spam

Nwithough.top Ads

nwithough[.]top is a bogus website that opens other sites of this kind or loads dubious content. It is similar to sbecome[.]online, emindeed[.]top, sionremai[.]fun and many other rogue websites. Note that users do not often visit these sites intentionally - they are opened by browsers that have p

Legend Ransomware
Ransomware

Legend Ransomware

Legend is a malicious program, which is part of the Voidcrypt ransomware family. Systems infected with this malware experience data encryption and users receive random demands for decryption. During the encryption process, all compromised files are renamed following this pattern: original filenam

Mail - Quarantined Email Scam
Phishing/Scam

Mail - Quarantined Email Scam

Scammers behind this phishing email attempt to trick recipients into opening a deceptive website and providing their email account login credentials. Note that emails of this type can be used to deceive recipients into providing other sensitive details as well. For example, bank account numbers,

RIP Lmao Ransomware
Ransomware

RIP Lmao Ransomware

RIP lmao (also known as JCrypt) ransomware renames encrypted files by appending the ".jcrypt" extension to filenames. For example, "1.jpg" is renamed to "1.jpg.jcrypt", "2.jpg" to "2.jpg.jcrypt", and so on. Depending on the variant, extension may also differ (e.g., ".l33ch", ".omero" extensions).