All in One SEO Pack is one of the most popular plugins for WordPress. It is actually the most downloaded plugin, with approximately 30 million downloads! Any security-related issue with such a trendy application would be a nightmare for users.…
AdMicroscope(.)com is a site of a advertising platform. The platform AdMicroscope is considered adware because of the distribution of many adverts and redirects to various websites. Such sites can gain revenue with the generated Internet traffic from the ad platform.…
Since the vast popularization of ransomware campaigns seen in the past couple of years, security researchers have been trying to establish ways to prevent these crypto virus infections. In addition to the best free anti-ransomware tools, brand new (anti-ransomware) solutions…
>> UPDATE: Zemana AntiMalware 2.30.2.37 is already here. This update comes with a re-written scanning engine & performance improvements. The premium version now allows the real time protection to be enabled whenever the user desires. The cloud anti malware programs…
PizzaCrypts is the name of a ransomware virus, which uses the Neutrino exploit kit as the primary distribution method. It encrypts files and wants Bitcoin currency as a ransom payment. The extension this ransomware appends to all encrypted files is…
Since its first appearance in April this year, the operators of Jigsaw crypto virus have released other variants (Epic ransomware, Payms ransomware) besides the original version appending .fun, .kkk, .btc extensions. If you have been victimized by any of Jigsaws’s…
Ransom Virus, known by the nickname CryptoFinancial has been reported to ask the sum of 0,2 BTC from affected users. The virus is regarded as a Fake Ransomare meaning that it may delete user files upon infection. To notify the…
Microsoft Decryption ransomware is the name of the latest variant in the CryptXXX family. Files get encrypted while retaining their names and extensions. That is clever as it might hindrance the detection of the malware for security software. An asymmetric…
Last month, a Senrio research team discovered an exploit in some of D-Link’s Wi-Fi cameras that could potentially be used to take full control of hacked devices. That way the cameras can be used for a number of malicious activities,…
One of the most devastating file-encryption viruses – CryptXXX has released a new variant, that has been dubbed “Microsoft Decryptor”. The virus includes a link to a new web page and a fresh new ransom note. Another development of this…
The Kovter malware family has been plaguing systems for many years and seems to be restless. A new click-ad-fraud strain of fileless Kovter is currently being spread via drive-by download attacks. The infection is triggered by a legitimate Mozilla Firefox…
A variant of the Kryptovor Ransomware, Neitrino ransomware is reported to encode the files of the computer it infects, adding the .neitrino expansion to them. This ransom virus also uses a MESSAGE.txt file that aims to notify affected users that…
The virus has appeared which uses a very strong encryption to encode files of infected computers. The virus is known as BitStak Ransomware, and it demands from affected users to make a payoff of roughly 50 US dollars in BitCoins…
Home.ClearWebSearch.net is the sub-domain of a search engine. An unwanted program setup which installs the browser hijacker Clear Web Search is hosted on the main domain – Clearwebsearch(.)net. Other ways exist for the delivery of the hijacker program. An intrusive…
Affected by Referral Spam? Read this guide! It will explain more about this referral spam and how you can get rid of it? What Is Referral Spam? Referral spam, also known as referral traffic spam or referral ghost spam, is…
New ransom virus, carrying the name Alfa has appeared. It uses a strong cipher to encrypt files adding .bin file extension to them and making them no longer accessible. To restore access to the files, Alfa demands via a ransom…
Avast Software has just announced their intentions to acquire AVG Technologies, the company that owns the popular AVG Antivirus program. The announcement was made today in the form of a blog post by Avast’s CEO Vincent Steckler. Shortly put, Avast…
TechAgent(.)co a website for a tech support scam. It advertises a fake tech support tool called TechAgent. You can download the tool from the site. If you do it, you will start noticing messages that your computer has issues which…
How does an unpatched UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) vulnerability in Lenovo ThinkPad firmware sound? This is exactly the type of vulnerability independent security researcher Dmytro Oleksiuk recently “stumbled upon” – a zero-day that exists not only in Lenovo but…
Ransomware virus named KryptoLocker has been reported by malware researchers to use a strong AES-256 encryption algorithm to encrypt files of infected computers. The virus is based on the notorious HiddenTear ransomware project which is available for free online. Users…
