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I Contaminated Your Machine With A Virus Email Scam
Phishing/Scam

I Contaminated Your Machine With A Virus Email Scam

"I Contaminated Your Machine With A Virus" is another spam email campaign designed to extort recipients. Cyber criminals send thousands of emails with deceptive messages stating that they have infected the victim's computer and recorded compromising material. These people threaten to send the rec

Adoptimismyto.club POP-UP Redirect
Adware

Adoptimismyto.club POP-UP Redirect

adoptimismyto.club is a rogue website that is virtually identical to newpush.support, bodelen.com, mobnootiffy.com, and many others. The site displays various dubious content and redirects users to other dubious sites. Research shows that many visitors arrive at adoptimismyto.club inadvertently -

ExileRat Trojan
Trojan

ExileRat Trojan

ExileRat is a trojan-type remote access tool distributed by cyber criminals. At time of research, cyber criminals proliferated ExileRat using a spam email campaign that targets only Tibetan Supporters. The deceptive email contains a malicious Microsoft PowerPoint document that, once opened, inject

Weknow.start.me Redirect (Mac)
Mac Virus

Weknow.start.me Redirect (Mac)

Weknow.start.me is a new variant of weknow.ac, it is a fake search engine that is promoted as legitimate. According to its developers, weknow.start.me supposed to provide its users with an enhanced browsing experience (improved search results, faster searches and so on). This search engine is p

My Mac Speedup Unwanted Application (Mac)
Mac Virus

My Mac Speedup Unwanted Application (Mac)

Developers claim that My Mac Speedup (also known as Speedup My Mac) is a legitimate app that fixes, cleans, and improves the performance of Mac computers. This app is promoted to optimize MacOS operating systems, however, it is known as a potentially unwanted application (PUA), since it is prom

CryptoStealer Trojan
Trojan

CryptoStealer Trojan

CryptoStealer is a generic name for viruses that steal crypto-currencies and cryptocurrency wallets. During the last few years, cryptomining has become very popular, especially after Bitcoin's success in the last quarter of 2017. This drew much attention and investment in the currency. Cyber crim

Search.elifaint.com Redirect (Mac)
Mac Virus

Search.elifaint.com Redirect (Mac)

There are hundreds of fake search engines on the internet, including search.elifaint.com (or searchv.elifaint.com). Although developers present this site as legitimate and promote it by offering an enhanced browsing experience, do not use it. This search engine is distributed via rogue download

Pluto Ransomware
Ransomware

Pluto Ransomware

Pluto is one of many ransomware-type viruses discovered by malware security researcher, Michael Gillespie. Following successful infiltration, Pluto encrypts most stored files and appends filenames with the ".pluto" extension (e.g., "sample.jpg" is renamed to "sample.jpg.pluto"). Once encryption i

Search.ranimaker.com Redirect (Mac)
Mac Virus

Search.ranimaker.com Redirect (Mac)

search.ranimaker.com is categorized as a fake search engine and is virtually identical to search.fegline.com, search.blueslaluz.com, search.getmybestyear.com, and many others. Developers present this as a legitimate and useful tool, however, this search engine records browsing-related and other