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Like many other sextortion emails, this one is used by scammers who try to trick recipients into paying to prevent distribution of humiliating videos (and personal information) that the criminals have supposedly recorded. Emails of this kind should never be trusted or taken seriously: all statemen
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Lampion is a malicious program, a banking Trojan which cyber criminals proliferate by sending emails. The messages contain a link that downloads an archive file (ZIP) containing malicious files. Since Lampion is a banking Trojan, cyber criminals have designed it to steal information that can be us
Forms Guru is a rogue application, advertised as a tool for easy access to various forms. This Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA) operates as a browser hijacker. It changes certain browser settings to promote a fake search engine (search.formsgurutab.com). Additionally, most browser hijackers
The akamaihd.net web address is promoted through a potentially unwanted application (PUA), an app categorized as a browser hijacker. The name of this browser hijacker is unknown, however, research shows that it relates to another app of this type called Search Pulse. This is because akamaihd.ne
Discovered by Alex Svirid, Happy New Year is an updated variant of WannaCash ransomware. This malicious program operates by encrypting data and demanding ransom payments for decryption. During the encryption process, all files are renamed with the following pattern: assigned file number; "file enc
BDDY is a part of the Matrix ransomware family. It encrypts files and renames them using this pattern: "[Buddy@criptext.com].[random_string]-[random_string].BDDY". For example, "1.jpg" might become "[Buddy@criptext.com].xQ4uk8Vz-KAFJcwKX.BDDY", and so on. BDDY stores the "#BDDY_README#.rtf" ranso
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