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Have you ever used a search engine called HappyHotel? There is one reason to use this particular search engine, and it is finding a “love hotel” in Japan. If you’ve used HappyHotel’s services, you should know that it has suffered…
Are you constantly being redirected to a website called Adsremnant.com? The website is classified as an intrusive redirect, and its sudden appearance could be associated with an adware/ potentially unwanted app (PUA). Adsremnant.com “Virus” Redirect Our research indicates that the…
A new scam is circling the web, known as the “YouTube Warning Scam” targeted at owners of YouTube channels that have monetization. It comes in the form of an email message with “Warning” as a subject line. At first look,…
Software-as-a-service has become a commonplace practice for businesses globally over the last few years, with a reported 78% increase of SaaS spending in just the one year between 2017 and 2018. Despite this clear growth in cloud computing, leading businesses…
Are you seeing a “Shield for Mac” update in your Safari browser, and wondering whether it is legitimate? “Shield for Safari” Fake Update “Virus” “Shield for Mac” is a fake update that appears in the Safari browser, interrupting the regular…
Did Area Product sneak into your Mac without your knowledge? This behavior is typical for adware applications, and Area Product fits the description. Area Product “Virus” App for Mac Is your default browser (Safari, Chrome, etc.) affected by intrusive pop-ups…
If you’re seeing the Mkos (.mkos) virus file extension appended to your data, then you have been infected by the latest iteration of the infamous STOP ransomware. The Mkos ransomware virus targets your personal files and encrypts them using a…
Researchers from three European universities discovered a new type of attack that affects Intel CPUs, or more specifically, the data located in Intel SGX (Intel Software Guard Extensions). Intel SGX is considered a highly-secured area but researchers were able to…
Microsoft has been pushing Windows 10 purposefully since 2015. Part of this strategy is the end of life of Windows 7 which is set on January 14th, 2020. Microsoft Security Essentials Lifecycle Coming to an End Apparently, the company doesn’t…
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…
