Ventsislav is a cybersecurity expert at SensorsTechForum since 2015. He has been researching, covering, helping victims with the latest malware infections plus testing and reviewing software and the newest tech developments. Having graduated Marketing as well, Ventsislav also has passion for learning new shifts and innovations in cybersecurity that become game changers. After studying Value Chain Management, Network Administration and Computer Administration of System Applications, he found his true calling within the cybersecrurity industry and is a strong believer in the education of every user towards online safety and security.
A virus-encoding program also known as ransomware, called ToxCrypt is continuing to spread its malicious data across the web. This virus aims to scare infected users into paying the ransom by resembling a toxic menace and using a strong AES…
A notorious ransomware, known by the name keyholder has started to spread again, reports on forums indicated. It carries the symbolical name KeyHolder and uses a XOR cipher to encrypt various files of encrypted users’ computers. Not only this, but…
New ransomware variant, whose name was chosen by its creators to be “Apocalypse” has emerged out into the open. The ransomware also known as a crypto-virus uses either RSA or AES cipher to encrypt the files of the computers it…
Ransomware which is associated with the .7h9r file extension has been reported to affect users on a massive scale. The ransomware uses an extremely strong file encryption to encode the files of infected users. In addition to that, 7h9r leaves…
A heavily advertising browser extension on Google Chrome has been reported on Reddit and other web forums. The extension is named ZenMate free VPN, and it is believed to be installed along with other setups. The pop-ups caused by the…
The family of Crysis ransomware viruses is able to encode files on different drives as well as external devices. The virus uses an extremely powerful combination of three ciphers to encrypt data – AES, RSA key to lock the AES…
Ransomware virus from the “@” family has been reported yet again on security forums to encrypt files of unsuspecting users. The ransomware is believed to be widespread via e-mails that contain malicious attachments and it uses a powerful cipher to…
Ransomware, known as CryFile has been reported to infect computers primarily in Russia. This nasty crypto-virus is reported to encrypt files of the infected users, denying them access to them. The newly encrypted files have the .criptiko, .criptoko, .criptokod, .cripttt,…
Android is an amazing operating system, mainly because of one and only feature – customization. However, some phone brands release their devices with some automatically configured settings because not every user is capable of dealing with advanced settings themselves. It…
The notorious Troldesh family of ransomware viruses has just increased with a new variant. The new crypto-ransomware variant encrypts the user files adding a .Better_call_saul file extension after them. It is reported by researchers at Nyxbone to utilize a powerful…
A notorious Browser Hijacking application has been reported to become even more popular, making it to be one the of top 4000 websites regarding traffic at this moment. The application aims to heavily modify the computer it`s installed on, changing…
Ransomware, carrying the name Herbst (Autumn) has been the reason of people complaining they no longer have access to their files. What this cryptovirus also familiar as ransomware does is it uses a strong AES-256 encryption standard to encode the…
Ransomware, meant for Russian speaking users, named Lortok has been reported to encrypt the files on the devices it infects by using an AES-256 cipher. When the files are encrypted, they are modified, and the .crime file extension is added…
Flimrans is a ransomlock virus belonging to the Police Ransomware variants. Such variants lock down the computer of the user preventing any access what so ever to it. The random lock virus leaves instructions on how to pay a fee…
File encryption virus belonging to the id variants has been let loose to infect unsuspecting user. The malware is named JuicyLemon, and it belongs to the “id” ransomware viruses. The cyber-criminals behind JuicyLemon use a strong cipher to encode files…
Ransomware, going by the name SkidLocker has been reported to threaten users that they will never see their files again unless they make a payoff to cyber-criminal. The ransom payment amount which SkidLocker demands to decrypt the files it encodes…
Ransomware Virus, belonging to the “@” ransom variants has been reported to encode user files and add a custom file extension to them. It also leaves the email by which victims can contact the cyber-outlaws – masterlock@india.com. Once contacted the…
“Website is locked. Please transfer 1.4 BitCoin to address 3M6SQh8Q6d2j1B4JRCe2ESRLHT4vTDbSM9 to unlock content.” – This message is what users and website publishers see after a website is attacked with this nasty web ransomware. It has been reported by malware researchers…
Update! Malware researchers from Kaspersky have updated their Rannoh Decryptor utility with decryption for the CryptXXX 3.0 ransomware family. Files should be fully decrypted with the help of that software. You can find its download page and instructions at: Kaspersky’s…
Bleep, .1999, .0x0, .fu*k – these are the file extensions used by the nasty Bitmessage ransomware virus that encrypts the files on the computers it infects and asks 2,5 BTC to decrypt them. After encryption, the files become unable to…
