While investigating new submissions to VirusTotal, our researchers discovered the BlackRock ransomware. It is designed to encrypt data and demand ransoms for its decryption. This malicious program is part of the Phobos ransomware family. On our testing machine, BlackRock encrypted files and modif
While examining samples on VirusTotal, our malware analysts discovered Xash, a ransomware strain that is part of the Djvu family. This nefarious software encrypts files and appends the ".xash" extension to their original names. It also creates a ransom note named "_readme.txt". An example of how
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After inspecting the "Review Pending Messages" email, we determined that it is spam. The letter makes false claims about received messages in order to trick users into disclosing their email account log-in credentials (passwords) to a phishing website. The spam email informs the recipient
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Nature-tab.xyz is the address of an illegitimate search engine. It cannot generate search results and redirects to a genuine Internet search website. The fake pages are typically endorsed (via redirects) by browser hijackers. Sites of this kind and the software promoting them usually collect sensi
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