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What is the captchafilter[.]top site?

Captchafilter[.]top is an untrustworthy website designed to load questionable content, push its browser notifications, and/or redirect visitors to other (likely unreliable or malicious) pages.

The Internet is rife with such sites; onestoreblog.com, news-themes.com, and brokenbad.biz are but a few examples. Users typically access such rogue webpages via redirects caused by suspect sites, intrusive advertisements, or installed PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications).

What is eruthoxup[.]com site?

Eruthoxup[.]com asks for permission to show notifications and promotes potentially malicious pages. It is promoted through other pages of this kind, shady advertisements, and (or) potentially unwanted applications (PUAs). Eruthoxup[.]com is similar to oataltaul[.]com, onestoreblog[.]com, news-themes[.]com, and many other pages.

What is ConnectedPlatform?

ConnectedPlatform is a rogue app classified as adware. It also has browser hijacker qualities. Furthermore, due to the questionable techniques used to distribute products within these classifications, they are also considered to be PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications).

What is WOLF ransomware?

WOLF is part of the Dharma ransomware family. It is designed to block access to files (to keep them encrypted) until a sum of money is paid. WOLF also renames files and generates two ransom notes (displays a pop-up window and creates the "info.txt" file).

WOLF renames files by appending the victim's ID, seawolf@onionmail.org email address and ".WOLF" extension. For example, it renames "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.id-C279F237.[seawolf@onionmail.org].WOLF", "2.jpg" to "2.jpg.id-C279F237.[seawolf@onionmail.org].WOLF", and so on.

What is BadSiteDefender?

BadSiteDefender is a browser extension promoted as a tool capable of preventing malicious websites from being opened. Instead, this rogue piece of software operates as adware. Due to the dubious methods used to distribute adware-type products, they are also categorized as PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications).

What is onestoreblog[.]com?

Similar to news-themes.com, tionalmorei.online, allhotfeed.com, fast-travel.org, and countless others, onestoreblog[.]com is a rogue website. It operates by loading dubious content and/or redirecting visitors to various (likely untrustworthy or malicious) sites.

Users typically access such webpages via redirects caused by suspect websites, intrusive ads, or installed PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications).

What is RTX ransomware?

RTX is one of the ransomware variants that are part of the VoidCrypt family. RTX encrypts files and modifies their filenames. For instance, it renames "1.jpg" file to "1.jpg.[hoti2020@tutanota.com][MJ-ZS8512639047].RTX", "2.jpg" to "2.jpg.[hoti2020@tutanota.com][MJ-ZS8512639047].RTX". It also creates the "Read-this.txt" file (a ransom note).

What is Gyjeb ransomware?

Gyjeb is a ransomware-type program designed to encrypt data (render files unusable) and demand ransoms for the decryption.

Affected files are appended with a ".[random_string].gyjeb" extension, e.g., a file like "1.jpg" would appear as something similar to "1.jpg.wKkIx8yQ03RCwLLXT41R9CxyHdGsu_T02yFnRHcpcLj_xxr1h8pEl480.gyjeb". After this process is complete, a ransom note - "nTLA_HOW_TO_DECRYPT.txt" - is dropped onto the desktop.

What is Still Sherpa?

Still Sherpa is advertised as a tool for finding content on the Internet. An important detail about this application is that it is classified as adware - it generates advertisements. Most users install adware inadvertently.

What is Simply Convert Files?

Simply Convert Files is a browser extension endorsed as a tool for easy file format conversion. It is supposedly capable of converting document, image, and audio formats. Instead, Simply Convert Files operates as adware. Additionally, since most users install adware-type products unintentionally, they are also classified as PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications).