What is SearchZone
SearchZone is a browser hijacker that will change your browser settings and try to redirect you to sponsored sites. It’s advertised as a useful extension that will supposedly make your browsing better and easier, but in reality it’s aiming to redirect you in order to generate traffic and revenue. It’s a relatively minor computer infection in comparison, but…
What is 2020 Visitor Feedback Survey?
2020 Visitor Feedback Survey is an online scam that attempts to trick users into sharing their personal details. The deceptive page is asking you to fill out a short survey and claim a reward. Of course, there is no reward and the only purpose of the survey is to get you to visit an unreliable…
What is DriverFix?
DriverFix is classified as a potentially unwanted application that is promoted as a tool to update Windows drivers. The program has an official page, which states that it can update all your drivers with one click and so improve your system performance. Despite having an official site, the main distribution method of DriverFix is free software bundles. This method…
What is Bongacams virus
Bongacams virus refers to an adware infection that redirects users to the adult site Bongacams.com. Because of the redirects and other questionable behaviour, users refer to this infection as Bongacams virus, even though that is not the correct classification. It’s adware that’s causing the redirects to the site, and adware is not a virus. It’s a relatively…
What is COM surrogate virus
COM surrogate virus is what some users may call a legitimate process when they encounter it running in their Task Manager. It’s not a virus, and is actually a legitimate Windows process. You can encounter a couple of these processes running at the same time. They’re not very noticeable processes, as in they don’t use many…
What is Supreme Court Email Scam
Supreme Court Email Scam refers to a scam email that claims to be from UK’s Supreme Court. There a couple of slightly different scam emails that claim to come from the same institution, either carrying an attachment or containing a link. The one with an attached file is carrying the AsyncRAT remote access trojan that…
What is MessengerPlus
MessengerPlus (not to be confused with Messenger Plus!, a legitimate extension for Windows Live Messenger and Skype) is a questionable program that is advertised as a desktop version for Facebook’s messenger. It’s a rogue application not associated with the legitimate Facebook messenger, despite being advertised as one. Due to its questionable behaviour, it falls into the potentially unwanted…
Cybersecurity news headlines for 1-31 May, 2020
easyJet disclosed a data breach affecting 9 million customers, and is now facing a £18 billion lawsuit. Sodinokibi ransomware targeted a NY law firm and threatened to release incriminating information on Donald Trump. US accused China of carrying out cyber attacks against organizations doing COVID-19 research. And US Marshals service suffered a security breach…