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When social engineering joins cybercrime schemes, the resulting fusion can get really toxic. Unsuspecting users are being duped into handing over their sensitive information all the time, with numerous online scams constantly making the rounds. The today.gift cards pop up virus is a harmful entity that backs one of such nefarious campaigns. What is the […]
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China, or the People’s Republic of China, is known for their strict government censorship. Media is severely suppressed in China, with television shows, movies, magazines, books, and the internet being profoundly affected. It’s no surprise then that the Chinese government would eventually target VPNs. And that’s precisely what happened when a VPN ban went into […]
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Surreptitious activity tends to be inherent to the majority of the present-day malware. This hallmark allows the bad code to run undetected for a long time without any red flags being raised. However, the so-called Chrome 1111 virus falls out of this paradigm completely. It floods Google Chrome browser with error popups titled “111”, and […]
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It’s always a nuisance if your preferred web browser is acting up. Sometimes the problem is about a slowdown, which can be fixed by clearing its cache and other junk files piling up over time. In some cases, though, the issue requires a more insightful inspection and comes down to malware interference, as is the […]
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Popular social networks are an extremely lucrative environment for scams and malware distribution. The reason is prosaic – these services are used by millions, which automatically increases the odds of cybercriminals achieving their nasty goals even if the infection success rate is generally low. The OMG Facebook virus, for example, attempts to retrieve confidential information […]
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The present-day cybercriminals might mix up the malicious with the legitimate to achieve their goals. Browser hijacking, for instance, often involves unauthorized activity that makes victims recurrently visit one of the major search engines. This is the case with the Bing redirect virus, a strain that drives traffic to bing.com. Read this tutorial to learn […]
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The darkest side of the cryptographic science is all about ransomware. This is a category of aggressive computer code that makes users’ data inaccessible by encrypting it, and then demands money for recovery. By the way, these ransoms are typically payable in cryptocurrencies only, which is another abuse case somewhat related to cryptography. GandCrab 5.0.4, […]
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The ransomware phenomenon still instills fear like it used to. Falling victim to one of these nasty programs is the worst-case scenario imaginable for the average computer user, because they run the risk of losing the critical attributes of their digital life, that is, personal data. The lineage of blackmail viruses called Rapid ransomware is […]
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Treating ransomware as an obsolete phenomenon is clearly a misconception, although there has actually been some lengthy steep plummeting in this segment of cybercrime. Yet, there are several species that keep thriving, GandCrab being one of them. Although it emerged less than a year ago, its adverse potential is huge due to competently created code […]
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There are computer infections like fake system utilities or ransomware that manifest themselves in an outright way. The users hit by the above baddies are shelled by deceptive problem detection reports or simply end up being unable to open their files. The Cryptonight malware is different. It surreptitiously siphons off the host computer’s processing power […]
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