Our inspection of the "Your Domain And/Or Service Requires Upgrade" email revealed that it is spam. This fake letter informs the recipient that their email account has failed to upgrade and will be deleted. It urges updating the mail so as to avoid its deactivation. The aim of this spam letter is
Atharvan is the name of a Remote Access Trojan (RAT). The purpose of malware of this type is to give an attacker unauthorized access to a computer or device from a remote location. The attacker can perform a variety of malicious activities, such as stealing passwords, deploying additional malware,
"ChatGPT malware" refers to malicious content distributed under the guise of ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) – a chatbot developed by OpenAI. Since its inception in the autumn of 2022, ChatGPT has reached extreme popularity. At the time of writing, its user base has grown over 10
We have inspected this email and learned that it is a lottery scam email. It is a type of fraud where scammers send emails to unsuspecting individuals, claiming that they have won a large sum of money in a lottery or sweepstakes. These emails typically instruct recipients to respond with personal
Snwkz is ransomware that our team discovered while examining samples submitted to the VirusTotal website. The purpose of Snwkz is to encrypt files. Also, it creates a ransom note (a file named "[random_string]_HOW_TO_DECRYPT.txt") and renames files by appending a string of random characters and th
While investigating rogue software, we discovered the search.tablicious.com fake search engine. These illegitimate websites usually cannot generate search results and redirect to genuine search engines; this is true of search.tablicious.com as well. Sites of this kind are typically promoted (via
While investigating untrustworthy websites, our research team discovered the productprogramm2[.]com rogue page. It is designed to promote dubious/malicious software and browser notifications spam. Furthermore, this webpage can redirect visitors to different (likely unreliable/dangerous) sites. Us
Roghe is the name of a ransomware-type program. Malware classed as ransomware operates by encrypting data in order to demand ransoms for its decryption. After we executed a sample of Roghe on our test machine, we learned that it appends encrypted files with a ".enc" extension. For example, a file
After inspecting the "Suspicious Login Attempt On Your Windows Computer" email, we determined that it is spam operating as a technical support scam. The letter is presented as an alert from Microsoft/ Windows Security Center. It states that a suspect sign-in attempt has been made to the recipient
While analyzing malware samples submitted to the VirusTotal website, we discovered a ransomware variant dubbed Google. We found that Google ransomware belongs to the Chaos ransomware family. The purpose of this malware is to encrypt files. In addition to encrypting files, Google ransomware drops t