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The trade with stolen credit and debit card details is proliferating. A brand-new research indicates that more than 460,000 payment (both debit and credit) card records were offered for sale on the popular underground forum Joker’s Stash. The information was…
Are you trying to figure out what the “We Detected Unwanted Pop-Ups on Your Mac” pop-ups mean? “Dear Apple Mac OS X Customer. We Detected Unwanted Pop-Ups on Your Mac.” Scam Perhaps you suddenly started seeing these annoying pop-ups in…
Opensivepartme.info is classified as a browser redirect. This means that once you land on the Opensivepartme.info page, you may start being redirect to unwanted pages. Another outcome of having such a redirect interrupt your regular browsing is receiving push notifications.…
Has bitnote.me taken over your browser without your approval? The bitnote.me page may suddenly appear in your preferred web browser and ask you to agree to receive its push notifications. This is an example of the quite popular browser-based scams.…
Are you seeing pop-ups on your Mac that simply won’t vanish? This means one thing – you may have unintentionally downloaded and installed a potentially unwanted program such as the Mighty Browser. Due to this behavior, such apps are usually…
Gesd virus file extension – are your files encrypted with it? If so, then your system has been attacked by a severe crypto infection, which is another iteration of the infamous STOP ransomware. The Gesd ransomware is designed to target…
Has search.kiboletshual.com taken over your Safari or Chrome browser without you noticing it? If so, know that you have been affected by a redirect “virus”. Search.kiboletshual.com also known as simply Kiboletshual could have been triggered by a potentially unwanted application…
Are you trying to get rid of FormList? FormList may be advertised as a useful application that improves searching and enhances browsing but is in fact classified as a PUA (potentially unwanted application). Furthermore, FormList may generate advertisements which makes…
What is beap.gemini.yahoo (beap.gemini.yahoo.com) and how do I get rid of it? This is definitely a question that many Mac users have been trying to solve. Beap.gemini.yahoo also known as beap.gemini.yahoo.com is a suspicious domain that causes browser redirects. Mac…
CStealer is a new password-stealing Trojan currently targeting Windows systems. The Trojan is designed to harvest passwords from the Google Chrome browser. There are plenty of other similar Trojans but this one has something more peculiar about it. CStealer utilizes…
A new macOS Trojan has been uncovered, which, researchers believe, was developed by the Lazarus hacking group. The malware has been analyzed by Patrick Wardle. However, it was discovered by another security researcher, Dinesh Devadoss, who shared his findings in…
There have been numerous complaints from Mac user about a “virus” application Premium Forward. The application appears on users’ devices without their consent, and it shows up every time the Safari browser is started. However, other browsers could be affected…
A new Python RAT (Remote Access Trojan) was just uncovered by security researchers. Called PyXie, the Trojan has been observed in the wild since 2018, or maybe even earlier, but hasn’t been analyzed deeply until now. Pyxie RAT: Technical Overview…
is yet another version of the now infamous STOP ransomware. The infection literally creates a mess on the compromised system by encrypting the victim’s files. In this article, you will find detailed instructions that will guide you in the removal…
Another huge data breach was discovered by researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar from vpnMentor. The team came across an unprotected TrueDialog database hosted by Microsoft Azure, which contained tens of millions of SMS messages. TrueDialog Data Breach: Users in…
CStealer is a new Trojan targeting Windows machines that tries to steal passwords stored in Google Chrome. Of course, this is not the first case of such a Trojan being detected in the wild. However, what is new here is…
Are you a Mixcloud user? You should know that the popular digital streaming platform has been through a data breach incident. Apparently, a hacker compromised Mixcloud earlier this month, and is now selling data belonging to 21 million user accounts…
“Your Mac needs to be updated to improve compatibility” is yet another example of a browser-based scam that is currently targeting Mac users. Such pop-ups claiming that a specific action needs to be performed could cause various issues for the…
Mac users have been complaining about receiving pop-ups claiming that there has been a security breach. The pop-up may be saying something like “APPLE SECURITY BREACH” and may be promoting a specific phone number. This behavior is typical for tech…
What Is TotalResultsSearch? Mac users have been complaining about an unwanted browser extension called TotalResultsSearch which appeared in Safari and Chrome without their approval. This makes TotalResultsSearch a potentially unwanted application (PUA) and browser hijacker. The issue is that the…
