Smartphone malware

FluHorse is a recently-discovered malware that targets Android devices across the Eastern Asia region. The virus itself is known to sit inside fake apps disguised as legitimate ones. After getting installed, the malicious app will try to trick users into providing their login credentials. Such information is of great value for cybercriminals as they can further abuse it for accessing various accounts (finance-related, social media, etc.) and performing fraudulent actions. The developers of FluHorse created the malware using an open-source framework and Google's Flutter software development kit, which makes it easy to build cross-platform applications with a custom virtual machine and a wide range of supported platforms. FluHorse is particularly dangerous because it can remain undetected and perform its malicious actions without causing suspicion to users for long periods of time. By mimicking legitimate apps from reputable companies, the attackers can trick users into downloading them and willingly entering their sensitive information. This way, threat actors seek to hijack login credentials and then misuse them for signing into genuine apps. On top of this, FluHorse can read all incoming SMS messages and 2FA (two-factor authentication) codes and use them for bypassing additional security measures while attempting to access the needed account. For instance, many accounts are protected by additional SMS confirmation where a code from SMS is required to complete the login. By having access to the infected device, FluHorse can easily send the received SMS code to the attackers and let them access the account eventually. Thus, apps that incorporate this malware pose a serious threat to users and therefore must be removed from the device immediately. Do not delay and follow our guide below to do it effectively and without residual traces.

Runesmith.top is a dubious one-page website that tells users to pass fake human verification by clicking "Allow". Visitors of this and other similar pages are often presented with messages like Press/Click "Allow" to verify, that you are not a robot. If you see such messages on websites like Runesmith.top, be sure they are likely designed to dupe you into allowing intrusive push notifications. Doing so will enable the web page to send countless notifications straight to the desktop. The displayed notifications may therefore consist of suspicious ads, fake system alerts, fake prize winnings, and so forth. Interacting with such content may expose you to dealing with pages that promote various scams, phishing campaigns, unwanted software, malware, and tons of other compromised content. Thus, if you fell victim to the Runesmith.top page, use our guide below to get rid of its notifications. In addition, we also recommend performing a full scan of your system to make sure you are not infected with adware. Our guide will help with that too.

Myavids.com is a website that employs deceptive tactics to lure users into subscribing to its push notifications service. It shows its activity in all major browsers and devices (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Edge, Safari on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS). The website often presents users with a pop-up that prompts them to click "Allow" in order to access content like videos, downloads, or age verification. If a user does allow notifications, Myavids.com will bombard them with spammy ads, fake alerts, and links to dubious websites. These notifications will appear on a computer's corner screen or on a mobile device's status bar and lock screen. If you find that Myavids.com and other suspicious websites keep appearing on your browser without your permission, it's likely that your computer has been infected with adware. Fortunately, you can remove Myavids.com notifications and pop-ups by following this simple guide to uninstall the adware.

Anvilworker.top is an advertising website that is known to deliver intrusive pop-up ads and redirects through push notifications. While it may not be considered a program or adware, its behavior can still be unwanted and disruptive to users. One way that Anvilworker.top may infect web browsers is through social engineering tactics or by exploiting vulnerabilities in the browser or other software. For example, it may trick users into clicking on a deceptive link or downloading a fake software update that installs Anvilworker.top or other potentially harmful programs. Additionally, Anvilworker.top may use push notifications to deliver unwanted content to users, which can be disabled through the settings in the web browser. Anvilworker.top can affect multiple web browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. Below you will find complete guide to remove Anvilwoker.top ads and notifications from browsers.

Check-this-out-now.online is another example of trickery websites that fool their victims into allowing fake push notifications. This page displays the Press "Allow" to watch the video message. Other pages of such may employ a number of other fake messages like Click Allow to verify that you are not a robot or Download is ready. Click "Allow" to download your file. The text you are seeing is fake and has no correlation with what it says. Instead, clicking on the Allow button will simply permit the rogue website to send various ads to your desktop. These ads are usually disguised as something innocent or even useful. Check-this-out-now.online can deliver relevant ads based on your browsing habits and geolocation. Unfortunately, such ads are not what they are trying to look. Many of them conceal redirects to suspicious or dangerous websites promoting unreliable content. This is why it is recommended to avoid clicking on them and delete Check-this-out-now.online notifications from your PC as soon as possible. In case you see this domain appear each time at browser startup, then more likely you are infected with some unwanted program like adware. This may, therefore, raise a few security threats as unwanted software can access your browsing data to gather passwords, IP addresses, and geolocations. Knowing this, users are strongly advised to delete Check-this-out-now.online from their system. To learn more about proper removal and how Check-this-out-now.online could cement on your system, move on to the next sections of our tutorial below.

Allwowwords.com is an unsafe website, that is used for social engineering attacks in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, or Edge browsers on Windows, Mac, or Android operating systems. The main goal of such shady websites is to subscribe users to browser notifications, using trickery and fraud. Notifications are a function in modern browsers when news or subscription updates are delivered to the desktops even when the browser's window is closed. The idea behind this is to inform users about hot news, social networks updates, or new YouTube videos from subscriptions. However, the cool feature was turned to their advantage by advertising networks. Allwowwords.com is one of the thousands of domains, using similar techniques to fool unsuspecting users. As a rule, when users land on some dubious resource with pirated content, torrent downloads, they are redirected to the page with the following text (see the picture below): Allwowwords.com wants to Show notifications. Click "Allow" to confirm that you are not a robot!. Click on the "Allow" button, in fact, subscribes users to notifications. At the same time, Allwowwords.com displays a standard browser window with the option to allow or block notifications from the site. If a person clicks the "Allow" button, users will start to receive pop-ups and notifications from Allwowwords.com on a regular basis. In this tutorial, we will show the exact way to remove Allwowwords.com and stop notifications from such sites.

Newcaptchahere.top is considered to be an unwanted website that promotes fake push-notifications. The way it does it is very simple - Newcaptchahere.top shows the Confirm that you are not a robot or Press "Allow" to watch the video messages to pass onto the next page. In order to do so, users are asked to click on the "Allow" button located in the top left corner. By ostensibly confirming the "robot verification", users grant permission to send push-notifications right to the desktop. Then, the content featured on your desktop may contain unwanted or even malicious links to various resources. This can create a chain of suspicious websites promoting their products or showing explicit content. If you are the one experiencing such changes, it is important to fix it by following our guide below. Besides that, if you see Newcaptchahere.top each time at browser setup, this means your browser is being configured by adware installed on your PC. To implement full removal and restore your safety, please, use the article below.

It was identified by McAfee that 60 legitimate apps (in Google Play and South Korea’s ONE Store) have been infiltrated with a malicious library identified as "Goldoson". Please note that the apps themselves are fully legitimate and were not meant to be malicious by their developers. It is the third-party library, to which these apps were connected and which suddenly got injected with Goldoson malware. The downloads for these apps range from 1 million to even 10 million downloads, meaning a lot of innocent users have become victims of this malicious library. The malware itself is capable of collecting sensitive data from installed apps, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth-connected devices, and the user's GPS location as well. In addition, it was discovered that Goldoson malware can stealthily click on advertisements in the background with a special HTML code. This, therefore, helps cybercriminals generate additional revenue from infected users. Although this malware does not have as disruptive capabilities as banking trojans, it is still enough to put users' safety and privacy at risk. Luckily, a number of applications from Google Play have removed the malicious library and are safe to use after installing the latest update. Some, unfortunately, did not do it in time and are no longer available in Google Play.