Discovered by Michael Gillespie and part of the Djvu ransomware family, Carote is a malicious program designed to encrypt files and prevent access to them. Once a computer is infected with Carote, the program renames all encrypted files by adding the ".carote" extension. For example, "1.jpg" beco
Leadcolas[.]com is a rogue site, designed to redirect visitors to untrustworthy and malicious websites, as well as force-feed them highly dubious content. It shares many similarities with rembrandium.com, ernorvious.com, getmedia.me and innumerous others. It should be noted that few ever access le
apple.com-shield-guard[.]live is a rogue website designed to deliver fake error messages. The purpose of this site is to promote various dubious applications (at time of research, apple.com-shield-guard[.]live promoted Cleanup My Mac). Research shows that visitors typically arrive at apple.com-
Tutonhamon is a deceptive, scam website designed to advertise a potentially unwanted application (PUA) called Smart Mac Booster. To trick people into downloading and installing this program, scammers designed the site to display a fake virus alert notification. The alert states that the compute
Global-best[.]net is a rogue website, designed to cause undesirable redirects to compromised, possibly malicious sites and for the promotion of highly dubious content. There are thousands of rogue sites out there (for example, prioritynotifications.com, mediasource.online, viralupdatestoday.com, e
"ChaosCC hacker group" is the name of an email scam. Criminals use it to extort money from unsuspecting people by threatening to distribute a compromising video unless a specific sum of money is paid within 60 hours. This is a typical scam and should not be trusted. Scammers send these emails hop
clipconverter.cc is an online media converter that allows conversion and download of video or audio from YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and other sites. Users simply paste the URL of the video/audio, choose a format, start the converter, and then download the converted file. This service is not direct
Sharing similarities with topernews.me, vakogid.com, viralupdatestoday.com and thousands of others, dotnetwork[.]xyz is a rogue website. It operates by causing rampant redirects to compromised and possibly malicious sites, as well as presenting likewise suspect content for user consumption. It is
Belonging to the Djvu ransomware family, Gero is high-risk ransomware discovered by Michael Gillespie. Ransomware stealthily infiltrates systems and encrypts most existing files. In this case, it also renames each file by appending the ".gero" extension (e.g., "sample.jpg" is renamed to "sample.jp
Tiptoptrack is one of many scam websites online. This particular site is designed trick people into believing that their Mac computers are infected with a virus. Once opened, it displays a pop-up window, a notification about a 'detected virus'. The main purpose of this website is to promote a p