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What is wordorion[.]com?

Sharing many corresponding traits with rumiceseeds.com, courselfan.pro, mediafresh.online and others - wordorion[.]com is a rogue site. It is designed to redirect visitors to compromised/dangerous sites and to push users into consumption of unreliable or even potentially malicious content.

Intentional access to this website is extremely rare, as most of its visitors enter it through redirects caused by intrusive advertisements, or by having it opened by PUAs (potentially unwanted applications) present in their device. It is worth noting that PUAs do not require explicit user permission to infiltrate their systems.

These applications operate by causing unauthorized redirects, delivering invasive advertisements and tracking user data.

What is vakogid[.]com?

Vakogid[.]com is a rogue site, sharing many similarities with checking-your-browser.com, central-messages.com, pushmobilenews.com and many others. It operates by causing unwanted redirects to compromised and potentially malicious sites, as well as delivering untrustworthy and even malignant content.

Most visits to vakogid[.]com are unintentional, usually it is force-opened by PUAs (potentially unwanted applications) or accessed through redirects caused by intrusive advertisements. What should be known about the aforementioned applications is that they do not require user consent to infiltrate their device and carry significant risks.

What is laubeyrietechnology[.]com?

laubeyrietechnology[.]com is a dubious web address associated with Ads X. Research shows that people who click ads displayed by Ads X while searching with Google are forced to visit laubeyrietechnology[.]com and are then redirected to the advertiser's website.

I.e., users reach the web page of an advertiser who uses Ads X services through laubeyrietechnology[.]com. It is very likely that the browser exhibits this behavior due to a potentially unwanted application (PUA) installed on the system. Typically, people download and install PUAs unintentionally.

What is PDFPros?

PDFPros is yet another deceptive application that claims to allow conversion of various documents to PDF format. Its appearance suggests that PDFPros is a legitimate program, however, it is categorized as a potentially unwanted application (PUA) and a browser hijacker.

There are three main reasons for these negative associations: 1) installation without users' consent; 2) tracking of browsing activity, and; 3) promotion of a fake search engine [feed.pdfpros.com].

What is Getappsonline?

The behaviour and appearance of Getappsonline browser hijackers is virtually identical.

Deceptive marketers offer "unique value" (for example, free online movies) and use this to trick people into installing unwanted browser extensions. Once installed, these apps start to track users' internet browsing activity and redirect to unwanted Internet search engines (which usually redirect to search.yahoo.com).

What is Transit Schedules?

Developer promote Transit Schedules as an app that can be used to search for free public transit routes. Additionally, it includes a web search tool. In fact, this app is a browser hijacker.

Transit Schedules changes browser settings to promote a fake search engine (search.htransitschedules.com) and records information relating to users' browsing habits. Transit Schedules is categorized as a potentially unwanted application (PUA), since people usually download and install it unintentionally.

What is Pedro?

Belonging to the Djvu ransomware family, Pedro is a high-risk infection discovered by Michael Gillespie. Following successful infiltration, Pedro encrypts most stored data (thereby rendering it unusable) and appends each filename with the ".pedro" extension (hence its name).

For example, "sample.jpg" might be renamed to "sample.jpg.pedro". Once encryption is complete, Pedro stores a text file called "_readme.txt" in each existing folder. The new text file contains a ransom-demand message.

What is Dragon?

Dragon is a new variant of Aurora ransomware. This version was discovered by Jack. Dragon locks files with the RSA-2048 encryption algorithm and creates a ransom message within the "#DECRYPT_MY_FILES#.txt" file. It renames all encrypted files by adding the ".locked" extension to filenames. For example, "1.jpg" becomes "1.jpg.locked".

What kind of malware is Kryptik?

Kryptik (also known as Win32/Kryptik.BGIS) is a backdoor trojan, which is often installed without users' knowledge. Therefore, people do not install programs of this type intentionally. When installed, Kryptik can be controlled remotely.

Using this feature, cyber criminals attempt to trick people into installing Kryptik so that they can steal information and then use it to generate revenue. If there is any reason to believe that Kryptik is installed on the operating system, remove it immediately.

Furthermore, the term "Kryptik" (also known as Krypt, Cryptic, Crypt, and Packed) is used by various malware databases to describe "packed" (compressed) files.

What is Smoke Loader?

Smoke Loader is trojan-type malware used to proliferate various other viruses. Cyber criminals proliferate Smoke Loader using spam emails (malicious attachments).

Therefore, it typically infiltrates systems without users' consent. After successful infiltration, the malware performs a number of actions, such as: 1) self-updating; 2) removing all traces, and; 3) downloading other viruses.