In May’s edition of cybersecurity news headlines, we discuss one of the most serious cyber incidents to take place in recent history, the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack. In addition to this incident, there’s also Air India’s disclosure that 4.5 million passenger data was stolen during a cyberattack, and FTC’s report on the rising number of victims of cryptocurrency scams.
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Turtlelocation2.xyz is a scam website that will use sly techniques to trick you into allowing ads on the desktop. When you get redirected to it, a notification will appear saying “Turtlelocation2.xyz wants to show notifications” and if you click “Allow”, ads will start spamming your desktop. These ads will not necessarily be safe, as some of them may advertise potentially…
Faithlocation2.xyz is a scam website that will ask you to allow it to show notifications. Faithlocation2.xyz notifications would appear on the desktop and contain advertisement content, some of which could be potentially dangerous. Since Faithlocation2.xyz is a scam site, it’s more than likely that its notifications will also be scams.
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Interactivetop2.xyz is one of those scam websites that try to trick users into allowing ads on their desktops. When you get redirected to the site, a video will start playing and suddenly stop, with a message appearing soon after asking you to allow Interactivetop2.xyz to show notifications. Allowing these notifications would result in potentially dangerous ads on your desktop.
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Searchswift.co is a questionable search engine website that will be set as your homepage by a browser hijacker. You being redirected to the site (or some other site you did not set as your homepage) every time you open your browser means there is a browser hijacker installed. Along with the browser’s setting changes, the hijacker will also try to…
“Haveexperie.biz wants to show notifications” is the message that will greet you when you get redirected to Haveexperie.biz. The “show notifications” feature is legitimate but Haveexperie.biz is misusing it to trick users into agreeing to see ads on their desktop. If you agree to see its notifications, Haveexperie.biz will spam you with ads on your desktop.
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MovieSearchZilla is a browser hijacker that will set portal.moviesearchzilla.com as your homepage and searchlee.com as your default search engine. It’s not a serious infection but it does change your browser’s settings in order to redirect you to sponsored websites. It will also spy on your browsing and collect certain information about your habits.
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Chicheet.com is one of many scam websites that will try to trick you into agreeing to see ads on your desktop. If you get redirected to it, a browser alert will say that “Chicheet.com wants to show notifications”, and if you press “Allow”, you will get ads directly on your desktop, and not necessarily safe ones.
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