Whenwem.online is a generic website that pushes a social engineering scam. It will try to trick you into allowing it to show notifications by misusing a legitimate browser feature, and then spam you with advertisements on the desktop. Besides being annoying, ads shown by Whenwem.online can also be dangerous and expose you to malicious content and scams. If you have allowed Whenwem.online…
Seumsiden.online is a generic scam website that aims to expose you to advertisement content by misusing a legitimate browser feature. It’s identical to the tiniest detail to hundreds of other sites that try to do the same thing. When you enter the site, it will show an alert saying “Seumsiden.online wants to show notifications”. If you press “Allow”, you would…
Eneedande.online is a very generic scam website that misuses a legitimate browser feature to spam users’ desktops with ads. It’s essentially identical to hundreds of other sites that aim to expose users to as much advertisement content as possible. The site will show an alert saying “Eneedande.online wants to show notifications”, and pressing “Allow” would allow the site to show…
Orkf ransomware is a generic Djvu/STOP ransomware variant that encrypts files and demands a payment to decrypt them. The ransomware comes from a gang of cybercriminals who have released hundreds of essentially identical ransomware infections. The different versions can be differentiated by the extensions that are added to encrypted files. In this particular case, the ransomware adds .orkf. It also…
Thousands of Australians are being bombarded with scam text messages that are distributing the Flubot banking trojan. Scamwatch, a website run by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), has released a warning advising users to not click on links in suspicious messages, as that would lead to a serious malware infection. Reportedly, over 5500 reports about this particular scam…
Payfast ransomware encrypts personal files and demands a ransom payment in exchange for a decryptor. It’s a fairly typical ransomware infection and is a new ZEPPELIN ransomware variant. You can identify this ransomware by the extension added to encrypted files. It adds .payfast followed by the ID assigned to you. Once file encryption is done, “!!! ALL YOUR FILES ARE…
Hoop Ransomware is file-encrypting malware from the Djvu/STOP ransomware family. The group has released hundreds of ransomware versions, with Hoop being one of the more recent ones. This particular ransomware adds the .hoop file extension to encrypted files and drops the generic _readme.txt ransom note that explains how files could be decrypted. Unfortunately, at this moment the only ones with…
Archassista.top is a very generic scam website that pretends to be a news page in order to trick users into allowing ads on the desktop. It does that by misusing a legitimate browser feature that allows sites to show notifications. But instead of useful content, Archassista.top spams the desktop with ads. If you have allowed Archassista.top to show notifications, we strongly recommend…