In March’s edition of cybersecurity news headlines, there are only three stories to report on. There were no significant hacks or data breaches but some stories did make bigger headlines. A teen hacker responsible for the Twitter bitcoin giveaway scam has been sentenced to three years in prison for his “mastermind” role in the incident that made headlines all over…
Vlc Plus Player Virus can refer to either a potentially unwanted program (PUP) installed on your computer, or a false positive detected by adware cleaning tool AdwCleaner.
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ro9.biz is a very typical website that tries to trick users into subscribing to advertisements, which would appear on the desktop. If you get redirected to the site, a pop-up notification will appear saying “ro9.biz wants to show notifications”. Pressing “Allow” essentially means you will be spammed with ads.
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Me.fo is a website promoted by a browser hijacker. If you find that the site has been set as your homepage, your computer is infected with a browser hijacker, a rather minor infection that changes browser’s settings. Hijackers usually focus on redirecting to sponsored websites.
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Mekiroki.com is a questionable website that pushes a social engineering scam aiming to get users to agree to see ads on their desktop. It’s misusing a legitimate browser feature that allows sites to show users notifications on the desktop. When you get redirected to Mekiroki, a browser pop-up will say that “Mekiroki.com wants to show notifications”. If you press “Allow”,…
Idp.alexa.53 appears to be a false positive, detected by anti-virus programs AVG and Avast. The detection appears when users try to install or update certain software. The detection does not appear to be associated to one specific program, and according to users’ posts on various forums, it can happen to random programs.
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Enfp ransomware is file encrypting malware that comes from the notorious Djvu/STOP ransomware family. It’s a very serious malware infection that essentially takes files for hostage by encrypting them. This ransomware can be identified by the .enfp file extension that’s added to encrypted files.
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Omarona.com is a typical scam website that tries to trick users into subscribing to advertisements. The site misuses a legitimate browser feature that allows websites to show users notifications on their desktop. If you press “Allow” on the notification that says “Omarona.com wants to show notifications”, you will start seeing advertisements on your desktop.
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