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What is veinlacrolat[.]pro?

Veinlacrolat[.]pro is a rogue website, akin to naneso.com, newsredir.com, goodmedia.me and many others. It operates by redirecting visitors to unreliable and possibly malicious sites, as well as delivering hazardous content for user consumption. Most cases of entry to veinlacrolat[.]pro are unintentional and happen through unauthorized redirects.

Intrusive advertisements and PUAs (potentially unwanted applications) are both capable of causing such redirects. It must be noted that PUAs do not need express user permission to be installed onto their devices. Once successfully infiltrated, PUAs generate redirects to unreliable/malicious sites, deliver invasive ad campaigns and track user data.

What is Registry Doc?

RegistryDoc (or Registry Doc) is software that supposedly improves computer performance, removes junk files, fixes the registry, optimizes browsers, and allows quicker access to files. In fact, this program is classified as a potentially unwanted application (PUA), since developers distribute it using deceptive methods.

Therefore, people usually install programs such as RegistryDoc unintentionally. Furthermore, RegistryDoc operates as a Trojan.Clicker, a malicious program that performs 'click fraud'.

What is meknews[.]biz?

Meknews[.]biz is a rogue site. It functions by redirecting to untrustworthy and/or malicious websites, also by presenting questionable content for user consumption. There are thousands of dubious sites out there and they share many similarities; weads32.com, soptarroutg.com, newsfrog.me, mediafresh.online to name a few.

It should be noted that few users ever enter this site intentionally. The meknews[.]biz website gets most of its visitors through redirection caused by intrusive adverts or PUAs (potentially unwanted applications).

It is pertinent to know that these rogue apps do not require express user permission to invade their devices. PUAs generate unauthorized redirects, deliver invasive advertisement campaigns and track data.

What is Nymeria?

Nymeria (also known as Loda or LodaRAT) is a high-risk trojan virus, which serves as a keylogger and a remote access tool (RAT). This malware is written in the AutoIT scripting language. Although quite simple from a technical point of view, Nymeria is extremely dangerous and can cause issues relating to computer safety and privacy.

Research shows that, in most cases, cyber criminals proliferate Nymeria using spam email campaigns.

What is Retadup?

Retadup is the name of a worm, a malicious program capable of reproducing itself to infect as many computers as possible.

Research shows that, in most cases, Retadup installs cryptocurrency mining software, however, it might also be used to infect computers with Stop ransomware and/or Arkei password-stealing software. In any case, this worm must be removed from systems immediately.

What is donaldbluepage[.]icu?

Rogue sites are innumerous and donaldbluepage[.]icu is but one of them. They share many similarities in-between; corresponding websites include newsredir.com, procontent.me, dredrewlaha.info, viralupdatestoday.com and etc.

These dubious sites are designed to redirect users to other unreliable and/or harmful websites, as well as force-feed them highly questionable content. Intentional access to donaldbluepage[.]icu is very rare, most visitors happen upon it inadvertently. They get redirected by intrusive advertisements or by PUAs (potentially unwanted applications).

It is noteworthy that said rogue applications do not require explicit user consent to infiltrate their devices. Once installed, they cause undesirable redirects to untrustworthy/malicious sites, run intrusive advertisement campaigns and track data.

What is Xbits Speedup Pro?

Identical to Xtron PC Speedup, Xtron Optimizer Pro, and a number of others, Xbits Speedup Pro is a deceptive application that claims to be a high-end system optimization tool.

Judging on appearance alone, Xbits Speedup Pro may seem legitimate and useful, however, it is categorized as a potentially unwanted application (PUA), since it usually infiltrates computers without users' consent and developers promote it using a deceptive marketing method called "bundling".

What is bigclicker[.]me?

Bigclicker[.]me is a rogue site, akin to naneso.com, pushmehoney.com, ernorvious.com and many others. It is designed to cause unauthorized redirects to unreliable/malicious websites and to present visitors with highly dubious content (including click-bait). There are thousands of rogue sites out there and it is rare for visitors to access them willingly.

Most get redirected by clicking on intrusive advertisements (commonly hosted by compromised websites) or by PUAs (potentially unwanted applications) force-opening them. It should be mentioned that these applications do not require express user permission (in some instances, even knowledge) to be installed onto their devices.

PUAs generate rampant redirects to untrustworthy/malignant sites, deliver intrusive advertisement campaigns (pop-ups, banners, coupons, etc.) and gather vulnerable data.

What is Pack14?

Discovered by Raby, Pack14 (also known as Avest) is software classified as ransomware. People with computers infected by Pack14 cannot access their files, since it locks them using a strong encryption algorithm. Typically, to regain access to their files, victims are encouraged to pay a ransom.

Pack14 changes the names of all encrypted files by adding the "ckey(1xeXE2Oq).email(data1992@protonmail.com)" string and the ".pack14" extension to filenames. For example, "1.jpg" becomes "1.jpg.ckey(1xeXE2Oq).email(data1992@protonmail.com).pack14".

It also creates a ransom message within a text file named "!!!Readme!!!Help!!!.txt". Victims can find this file in folders that contain encrypted data.

What kind of malware is Lazarus?

Discovered by Alex Svirid, Lazarus ransomware is derived from King Ouroboros, another ransomware-type program. Ransomware encrypts data (blocking access to it). Cyber criminals create these programs to extort money from victims by demanding ransom payments in return for a decryption tool and/or key.

Lazarus changes the names of encrypted files by adding a string that contains an email address, the victim's ID, and the ".Lazarus" extension. For example, "1.jpg" might become "1.jpg.[ID=LNDxrzJ2Aw][Mail=Mr.TeslaBrain@gmail.com].Lazarus".

Updated variants use ".Lazarus+" extension. It also creates a text file named "Read-Me-Now.txt" and displays a pop-up window.