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"Your Chrome Is Severely Damaged By 13 Malware!" is a message hosted on various deceptive websites including high-benefits.com, letsprotectphone.com, and deviceunder-shield.com. It is claimed to be an official Google Security warning that says your Chrome browser data (e.g. passwords, messages, images, etc.) is at risk of leakage due to the so-called Tor.Jack Malware (or something else with other similar scams). The purpose of this pop-up scam is simply to trick users into believing their computer is under severe infection. It, therefore, encourages users to click on the "Allow" button and run a special Google Play-approved application promising to clean their PC from the afore-claimed danger. Unfortunately, complying with such requests will simply subscribe users to unwanted ads and notifications and cause redirects through tons of rogue pages. URL addresses spotted in the redirects chain after clicking on the "Allow" button are "get-advantage.com", "difice-milton.com", and "nomore-spam.com". The ostensible Google Play-approved application will end up unwanted or malicious, bringing a lot of problems that were not existent before. Software of this kind may be able to collect browser-related data (geolocations, IP addresses, passwords, log-in credentials, etc.), slow down system performance, or even ask victims to purchase some upgraded version for extended features. Note that the majority of applications distributed through scam pop-ups are fake and do carry nothing, but additional problems. If you became a victim of this scam, follow our tutorial below to make sure you are not in its dangerous grip.

Undoubtedly, smartphones have become an integral part of our everyday lives. We are all inherently dependent on them, and any problems related to their consistent usage may put us into an awkward spot. This is what has been a subject of worry to some percentage of people experiencing problems with Android devices. Specifically, the scope of such issues has been centered around unexpected restarting or crashing cases that occur while performing various tasks. Due to this, some users are left with little or none of adequate device usage to satisfy their needs. Unfortunately, there is no single reason why such issues occur - it can be linked to the outdated operating system, incompatibilities caused by third-party apps, the presence of malware, insufficient memory space, and, in rarer cases, even hardware problems. Below, we have compiled a guide with the most potential and efficiency-tested solutions to breathe new and flawless life into your Android smartphone. Note that all instructions located below are generic and can only differ slightly on some smartphone models.

DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN is a browser error preventing users from visiting some desired pages in Google Chrome. It has quite similar symptomatic traits to other connection issues such as ERR_NETWORK_ACCESS_DENIED, ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED, and ERR_INTERNET_DISCONNECTED as well. Users are oftentimes greeted with a message like "This site can't be reached" offering no working solution to get over the problem. All errors of this type do not have one single cause of appearance - there can be a number of different reasons striking each user. This list of potential reasons usually comes from issues with DNS and IP-Address performance which become evident when trying to establish a website connection. This can be therefore caused by software conflicts, wrong configuration settings, and other hiccups leading to problems with the connection. If you are sure that the URL address of the website you are trying to visit is typed correctly and no basic solutions result in success, feel free to follow our tutorial below for an advanced list of resolution methods. There are 8 of them in total to try and succeed in opening problematic websites eventually.

Sojusz is the name of a ransomware infection. It belongs to the Makop ransomware family that designs a number of different file encryptors. Sojusz blocks access to data and demands money for its decryption. The research showed it highlights encrypted files by assigning a random string of characters, ustedesfil@safeswiss.com email address, and the .sojusz extension. Latest versions of Sojusz used following extensions: .bec, .nigra, .likeoldboobs, .[BillyHerrington].Gachimuchi, This means a file like 1.pdf will be changed to 1.pdf.[fd4702551a].[ustedesfil@safeswiss.com].sojusz and become no longer accessible. After all targeted files end up encrypted this way, the virus creates a text file called -----README_WARNING-----.txt (later versions created also: !!!HOW_TO_DECRYPT!!!.txt, Horse.txt, README_WARNING_.txt and #HOW_TO_DECRYPT#.txt ransom notes).

OpenSea email scam stands for a fake OpenSea campaign that distributes intentionally phishing letters. Initially, OpenSea is a legitimate and world-famous NFT marketplace allowing users to buy/sell their digital assets (NFTs). Unfortunately, there are cybercriminals impersonating its traits in such scam e-mail letters. These e-mail messages are often sent under the subject of "Migrate Your Ethereum Listings Starting Today" to fool OpenSea users into clicking on the suggested "Get Started" button. Scam developers claim it is necessary to extend Ethereum listings on a new smart contract unless users want to pay additional gas fees. In fact, this button is meant to trick users into revealing their log-in credentials to cybercriminals. As a result, victims can end up being robbed on both the NFT marketplace and cryptocurrency wallets. If you, yourself, became a victim of this scam scheme, we therefore strongly advise you to change your password and secret phrases in order to prevent swindlers from abusing your data again. Even better would be to create a completely new account from scratch. To be more protected against such phishing attacks in the future, it is important to be careful and double-check the information provided. You can also read our guide below for more useful tips about staying secure on the Internet.

"Unfortunately, There Are Some Bad News For You" is a pure e-mail scam message. It is designed and promoted by cybercriminals to extort money from users based on privacy threats. To elaborate, the message contains a fake and explicit story (maybe in different languages) claiming the recipient was captured on camera while visiting adult-oriented resources. This happened, extortionists say, due to a malware infection that attacked the system and granted developers remote access to PC features several months ago. The information is followed by threats to spread the allegedly recorded content to friends and third-party entities interested in its monetization. Cybercriminals ask to pay about $1750 in Bitcoin for the prevention of leakage. As we already mentioned above, there is nothing users should worry about since all the written claims are fake and do not bare real threats to users who received them. Therefore, this or any similar message should be ignored and reported as spam to avoid its delivery in the future. In general, this type of scam is used quite often - fraudulent figures try to create a story that would potentially coincide with what users were doing at a given point in time. Below, we have created a guide with useful tips on how to avoid such e-mail scam techniques and lower the chance of their delivery.

Quite recently, hackers found a new Windows vulnerability to aid the penetration of systems with malware. The exploit is inherently related to MSDT (Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool) and allows cybercriminals to perform various actions by deploying commands through the PowerShell console. It was therefore called Follina and assigned this tracker code CVE-2022-30190. According to some reputable experts who researched this problem, the exploit ends up successful once users open malicious Word files. Threat actors use Word’s remote template feature to request an HTML file from a remote web server. Following this, attackers get access to running PowerShell commands to install malware, manipulate system-stored data as well as run other malicious actions. The exploit is also immune to any antivirus protection, ignoring all safety protocols and allowing infections to sneak undetected. Microsoft does work on the exploit solution and promises to roll out a fix update as soon as possible. We thus recommend you constantly check your system for new updates and install them eventually. Before that, we can guide you through the official resolution method suggested by Microsoft. The method is to disable the MSDT URL protocol, which will prevent further risks from being exploited until an update appears.

Often mistaken by a separate virus, messages spamming Google Calendar events are actually related to a malicious/unwanted app that might be running on your Android device. Many victims complain that messages usually appear all over the calendar and attempt to persuade users into clicking on deceptive links. It is likely that after an unwanted application was installed, users experiencing spam at the moment granted access to certain features including permissions to modify Google Calendar events. The links may therefore lead to external websites designed to install malware and other types of infections. In fact, whatever information claimed by them ("severe virus detected"; "virus alert"; "clear your device", etc.) is most likely fake and has nothing to do with reality. In order to fix this and prevent your calendar from being cluttered with such spam messages, it is important to find and remove an application causing the issue and reset the calendar to clean up unwanted events.