Archive for 2016
Locky ransomware devs appear to have been really busy rolling out updates to their nefarious extortion product lately. Less than a month after the emergence of the previous “Odin” variant, a brand-new iteration has been discovered that appends the .shit extension to one’s crippled files. Other than the somewhat different filename skewing effect, this version […]
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Python-based ransomware is not a new phenomenon in the online extortion environment, but it hadn’t been nearly as well-orchestrated as it has become with the emergence of the CryPy baddie. This crypto threat is proficient at evading antiviruses and leverages an extraordinarily hard-to-tackle encryption principle. The main hurdle to handling these attacks is that the […]
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Customizing web browser settings is as easy as ABC – all that needs to be done is go to the configuration pane and type the preferred values for homepage, new tab and default search. It may even be possible to pick the most popular service providers from a readily available list. This whole built-in convenience, […]
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Ransomware takedowns are still the exceptions rather than the rule, but they do occur once in a while. The WildFire Locker campaign, for instance, discontinued about a month ago due to a well-orchestrated operation by law enforcement and private sector security organizations. While this initiative was undoubtedly a success, the same group of cybercrooks recently […]
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There are no extraordinary tweaks made to the prolific Cerber Ransomware in the course of the fresh update. It still leverages the same strong cryptosystem to lock a victim’s files. As before, it changes the desktop wallpaper to a grayish image with random pixels and some warning text in green font. The circulation peculiarities are […]
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It takes a great deal of security awareness and caution to prevent the average ransomware attack from getting through, but it’s much more difficult to counter such a compromise after it actually took place. When the .odin file virus hits a Windows computer, the risk mitigation task is twice as tough. It locates and encrypts […]
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There are several strong reasons why tech-connect.biz is a drag. Whereas it is okay as a website with some sort of a search functionality, the techniques bolstering its distribution and operation are clearly malicious. An associated rogue browser extension, once inside a Windows computer, muddles the user’s online preferences big time. It automatically makes tech-connect.biz […]
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No matter how hard the authors of Safe Finder try to market it as a useful browser extension on steroids, there are quite a few reasons to question its legitimacy. This app gets off the beaten track, in a bad way, as it operates without user’s approval: its installation is furtive, and the changes made […]
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Sometimes crypto threats fail to reach their extortion goal as early as at the stage of computer contamination, in which case the attack isn’t worth the criminals’ while. The Trojan dubbed Petya happens to be an example – its technical gist relies on gaining administrator privileges on a targeted machine. Since this kind of access […]
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Computer usage is certainly incomplete without web surfing these days, and so is Internet navigation proper with the Tavanero virus running on a machine. This infection badly twists its victim’s browsing preferences and keeps resolving tavanero.info site instead of the custom values defined by the PC administrator. What is Tavanero Search When confronted with the […]
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