Archive for 2015
Mobile content providers stick with a business model where people sign up for their services and get subsequently charged for this on a weekly or monthly basis. Such a modus operandi is legal, moreover, lots of subscribers are satisfied because they thus get access to various entertainment platforms, news feeds, weather forecasts and the like. […]
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To procure assistance in the domain of online advertising, the easiest path merchants can go is sign up with a platform that links their sites with the potential end users. Ideally, this scheme works flawlessly for everyone involved, but with the digital facility that powers ‘Ads by Provider’, the outcome is a complete bummer for […]
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A new browser hijacking infection has been attempting to promote malicious software under the pretext of rolling out an Internet Explorer patch. The attacked users repeatedly get phony popups that recommend them run a file named Internet_ExplorerPatch.hta, which turns out to host a harmful routine instead of enhancing the browser’s security. This issue is backed […]
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Malicious software proved to be really good at masquerading itself, making computer users take the outer manifestation of its wrongdoings for granted. Peddling harmful code through infections like redirector.gvt1.com is easy and highly efficient for cybercriminals, because the generated popup prompts look like they come from legit services so that people often fail to discern […]
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SoftwareBundler:Win32/Techsnab, also known as Adware/Techsnab, is a malicious program tasked with a number of disruptive functions. It promotes other threats onto a computer by leveraging a surreptitious drive-by technique and installs unwanted components in web browsers, mostly ones built with the Chromium open-source project, thus enabling ad injection as well as the changes of default […]
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The two major areas that the global cybercrime has been busy covering over the last several years are browser disruption and the abuse of cryptography for ransom-related purposes. Yoursite123 is an example of the former trend, being designed as a search provider of a kind but actually accommodating no genuine search capacity. All it does […]
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Viruses that take their victims’ files hostage are categorized as “ransomware” and are at the very forefront of cybercrime for the time being. Rather than dupe users into purchasing something they don’t need, these infections feature a viable model where one’s data actually gets encrypted and the payment is essentially the sole prerequisite for reobtaining […]
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It takes a few swift, imperceptible steps for the TeslaCrypt ransom infection to intrude on a computer system, but it’s an extremely nontrivial task to make the encrypted data accessible again afterwards. This ransomware, which can as well be manifested under the name of CryptoLocker or CryptoWall, appends the captured files with .vvv extension, drops […]
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The ostensibly innocuous site parked at istartpageing.com domain happens to denote a rather massive issue pertaining to web browser functioning on multiple infected PCs. The malicious artifact spreading through drive-by techniques injects a truculent plugin into web navigation software’s preset so that the imposed web page is hit instead of the ones assigned by the […]
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Anyone using popular social networks like Facebook or Twitter have encountered akamaihd.net as a transitional server name when viewing or uploading data. In fact, this URL denotes a powerful cloud network hosting content for a variety of services. Meanwhile, a lot of users are having browser problems symptomized by the above domain being visited at […]
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