Throughout the years, the Pirate Bay has been on and off multiple times. The torrent tracking website and its founders have been prosecuted and charged. There’s even a specific term coined for the matter – the Pirate Bay trial –…
A toolbar known as Ultimate Gamer has been recently identified as a PUP(Potentially Unwanted Program) by virus researchers. The toolbar is advertised as a helpful software to assist gamers in their online experience, however it is advisable not to trust…
Do you know what day is today? It’s November 30th and it’s the Day of Computer Security! This annual celebration is dedicated not only to computer geeks and professionals but to all PC users around the Web. The initiative was…
Referral spam has been causing quite the headaches lately as researchers manage to detect more and more websites providing referrer-spam services.. One of those websites is cyber-monday(.)ga which is frequently being spotted in comment spam messages with a subject similar…
Potentially unwanted applications, also known as potentially unwanted programs (PUPs and PUAs) are a major pain for both home and enterprise users. Considering how vulnerable an enterprise environment can be and how sneaky a suspicious browser extension is, Microsoft has…
There is a copycat of the CryptoWall 3.0 Ransomware that is infecting computers. It is also known as PhonyWall. It searches for files with many different extensions, overwrites them with its own files and then displays the decryption note of…
A new Facebook spam of a malicious link connected with request.blob.core.windows.net has been spreading vigorously via users. Security researchers believe that the scam itself is redistributed by malicious software affecting primarily android devices, because after clicking on the questionable spam…
Have you heard of Mr. Grey? Well, not that one. The Mr. Grey we are talking about is a Russian hacker that is discovered to have participated in the theft of 1.2 billion passwords from 420.000 websites. According to both…
A new vulnerability has been discovered. It affects some VPN services and can be leveraged to disclose real IP addresses. Among the users who are endangered by this flaw are the active users of BitTorrent. The vulnerability, dubbed ‘Port Fail’,…
Vonteera Adware which has been reported to be a PUP by ESG security engineers. The PUPs associated with Win32/Vonteera are usually browser toolbars and extensions that may be heavily ad-supported. This particular software is a low level type of threat…
A new research on 4000 devices from 70 different vendors reveals the alarming reuse of private keys. The research has been led by Stefan Viehböck from SEC Consult. The senior security consultant has investigated the HTTPS certificates and SSH keys…
The Omnibox.Exe file supports the takeover of all your browsers by the Omniboxes browser hijacker. It is known to be related to SuperNet Technology Limited. The application can modify the homepage, new tabs, the default Search Engine of your browsers,…
With the release of the latest installment of Fallout by Bethesda studios, there has been a fallout craze and many users started to download fallout content, including their app, called Fallout Shelter. Here is where potentially hazardous software such as…
A new version of CryptoWall arrived in the beginning of November. Some researchers immediately dubbed it CryptoWall 4.0, while others were more precautious and referred to it as to a ‘point release’. A couple of weeks later, all doubts evaporated.…
Referrer spam has been the cause of many website publishers` headaches lately. There have been many websites that have experienced problems with their analytics due to such spamming software. It is primarily conducted by the so called spam bots that…
Cryptolocker.AB is a Ransomware Trojan horse of the Cryptolocker family. It searches for files with many different extensions, encrypts them with a “.crinf” extension, then asks for a huge ransom for decryption. It can delete Shadow Volume Copies, disable Windows…
Golden Dock Ads is an adware PUP that is confirmed to display annoying pop-up messages to users linking to various third-party websites. Security researchers recommend being very cautious when dealing with Golden Dock Ads and remove it in case you…
Encryptor RaaS is a devastating trojan horse that causes quite the headaches. Symantec researchers have reported a new wave of encryptor RaaS hitting users on a global scale. This particular ransomware is detected to slip into the user system, modify…
Attacks by the notorious “Pandemiya family” of trojan horses have increased lately and experts advise all users who have visited suspicious sites, opened unfamiliar mail attachments or have run into Trojans before, to check their computers for this specific Trojan.…
“Yoursearchresults.biz” is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that after being installed on a computer will attach itself to a browser, change the homepage, the new tab page and the search engine. The user may be redirected to websites with potentially…
