The Chinese digital industry has been consistently producing loads of entertainment content, including streaming video services and music portals some of which are used by millions. The multimedia platform called ‘iQIYI’ is a popular one in its country of origin, but its audience isn’t restricted to Chinese-speaking people only. How come? This can be explained […]
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Ransom infections locking mobile gadgets aren’t a new encounter, but with the recent emergence of the Cyber Police virus things have gotten worse. The distribution range of this Android ransomware covers multiple countries, where the malicious code determines one’s geolocation and presents lock screens in the respective language. To unlock the device, obviously, victims are […]
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The fact that all controls and interactive screens of the MTview app are in Chinese is not the worst nuance for users who don’t speak this language. The program does not give in to the usual uninstall workflow and also affects some aspects of web browsing. Another snag is about the drive-by mode of the […]
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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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