ArcadeBayou.com is a website based on online gaming. Games hosted on the website are run both in HTML5 and the Adobe Flash Player. The website could have placed a related application onto your computer system. ArcadeBayou is considered adware due…
Wowstart.online is an online page redirect, which can hijack your browsers. The settings which this hijacker can switch are the start page, search engine and new tab of browsers you use. You will be redirected to Google’s Custom Search from…
Cyber crooks have brought Bart ransomware virus back in the game – this time it’s called Bart v2.0 (also Bart2) and appends encrypted files with the .bart2 extension. Bart v2.0 is considered an improved version from its predecessor Bart, for…
SecureSearch.co is an online page, which is also a browser hijacker. Settings which the hijacker can alter are the search engine, new tab setting and the home page of your browser programs. If you make search queries, you will get…
A ransomware virus that attacks the files of it’s victims only to archive them in password protected .ZIP files has been reported to wreak havoc on user computers. The virus moves all of the archived files in a RarVault folder…
Ransomware, created mainly for Russian speaking users, named KawaiiLocker has been reported to increasingly infect more and more users. The virus locks the files of the infected computer by encrypting them and asks the victim to pay approximately 6000 rubles…
It shouldn’t come to no one’s surprise that no place on the Web is safe – forums of porn sites the least. Still, however, such occurrence shouldn’t become the hackneyed scenario to which everyone has gotten used to. Amidst terrorism…
Start.prss.to is a webpage which serves as a browser redirect. You may be redirected to it from the Web, or you might have your browsers hijacked. Settings which the hijacker can change include the search engine, new tab setting and…
A ransomware virus going by the name N1N1N1 has been reported to use a very stron encryption algorithm to encode the files of unsuspecting users. The virus leaves behind the .n1n1n1 file extension to every file it has encrypted along…
Ransomware virus, resembling very much TeslaCrypt and Locky ransomware, named Ransomcuck has been reported to lock affected users’ files using the AES and RSA encryption algorithms. The virus uses the .ransomcuck and .cuck file extensions after it enciphers the files…
Users have increasingly started to report a browser hijacking software setting the page Tavanero.info which is a suspicious search engine as a home and a new tab of their web browsers. Among the web browsers that are influenced by this…
A ransomware virus, carrying the name Flyper, based on the HiddenTear virus project has been caught out in the wild to infect user PCs. The virus uses a very strong RSA-2048 file encryption mechanism to encipher the files of unsuspecting…
A virus pretending to be the CSTO, called Cry ransomware had been reported to use RSA-4096 and the .cry file extension to encrypt the files of computers infected by it. The virus wants it’s victims to pay the different sum,…
It’s already been 13 years since the powerful Blaster worm has hit the world. This may have yet been the first malware that attacked computers that were connected to important machines and institutions. Back then, many Windows XP systems were…
Have you been impatiently looking forward to Mr. Robot’s second season? Do you always have questions about the hacks that take place during the show? Are you often pausing to have a closer look at what’s written on that PC…
DNS Unlocker has been around for a few years now, and still continues to be one of the most persistent adware pieces in the wild. In 2017, catching an intrusive and persistent potentially unwanted program like DNS Unlocker continues to…
A man from El Portal, Florida was arrested for gaining unauthorized access to the kernel.org (Linux Kernel) servers. According to the court, the hacker Ryan Austin used credentials to the servers of what appears to be an employee associated with…
Many services we use on a daily basis turn out to be quite buggy. This time our attention was caught by a vulnerability in the Yandex Browser, built on Chromium, which could have allowed attackers to steal users’ browsing history,…
A ransomware virus, belonging to the dangerous CryiSiS / XTBL family of viruses has been reported to leave behind the e-mail Melme@india.com for contact after encrypting files of it’s victims. The virus may encode important files such as videos, audio…
A ransomware virus belonging to the @india.com ransomware variants has been reported to encrypt user files using a strong encryption algorithm. After encryption, the Masterlock virus leaves a .crypt file extension along with a unique identification number. All users infected…
