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Remove “ChaosCC hacker group” email scam

Remove “ChaosCC hacker group” email scam

Ever heard of the Chaos Computer Club, an association of hacktivists with German roots? Unless you are a security geek, you probably haven’t. A recent wave of email scams, though, has increased the average layman’s awareness about this community, except that it uses an abbreviated form of the name – the ChaosCC hacker group. Here’s […]

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Remove en.savefrom.net virus from Chrome, Firefox, IE

Remove en.savefrom.net virus from Chrome, Firefox, IE

Proper user experience is hard to provide and amazingly easy to deteriorate. There are online entities like en.savefrom.net that somehow manage to do both. One the one hand, the service in question allows people to download streaming materials. On the other, unlike benign providers, it ends up harshly interfering with one’s web browsing in several […]

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Netflix email scam – August 2019

Netflix email scam – August 2019

In a paradigm of electronic systems getting constantly better at defenses, cybercriminals are looking for easier ways of compromise than ‘classic’ malware injection. In this context, phishing attacks come to the fore as they zero in on humans rather than computers. The Netflix email scam is a prime example of such a modern exploitation vector. […]

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Account-alert@amazon.com scam – phishing emails on the rise

Account-alert@amazon.com scam – phishing emails on the rise

Amazon’s hefty user base is a goldmine for online fraudsters, because it spans people who are perfectly comfortable with the idea of buying goods on the Internet and hence have their credit card information tied to their accounts. Phishing through stratagems like the account-alert@amazon.com scam is the most common way for crooks to take over […]

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Save Yourself email scam – new Bitcoin phishing malware

Save Yourself email scam – new Bitcoin phishing malware

Although there are plenty of computer attack vectors involving complex malware, online criminals favor effortless ways of gaining profit. Various social engineering hoaxes are therefore on the rise, focusing on deceit rather than distribution of harmful code. In the case of the “Save Yourself” email fraud, though, the felons may be leveraging viruses alongside commonplace […]

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Ecleneue virus pop ups removal for Chrome, Firefox, IE

Ecleneue virus pop ups removal for Chrome, Firefox, IE

Obviously, browser redirects and popup ads are on nobody’s wish list, and yet these nuisances happen a lot in today’s Internet ecosystem. The pest referred to as the Ecleneue virus is one of the latest infections targeting web browsers and flooding the victims’ online experience with annoying and sometimes even embarrassing popups paired with frequent […]

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Remove SearchBaron.com-Bing redirect virus in Chrome/Firefox/IE

Remove SearchBaron.com-Bing redirect virus in Chrome/Firefox/IE

One of the fundamentals of the present-day web surfing is the availability of choice. Users can choose their favorite search engine, homepage, news site, weather forecast resource – you name it. Thankfully, browsers allow people to easily define and “hard-code” these preferences into their Internet routine. Cybercriminals are looking for methods to take this prerogative […]

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