Malware Security Alerts Weekly Report for October 4 - October 10, 2020
This week, the SpyHunter malware research team has highlighted a weekly roundup of common and critical malware threats that are currently affecting computers around the world. Take a look at this week's report and stay ahead of trending malware threats!
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This Week in Malware Video
This episode discusses the following topics: How the SilentFade malware threat has stolen credentials and upwards of $4 Million from Facebook users through promotion methods, and how the 2020 U.S. presidential election has sparked a major increase in ransomware attacks leveraging the election new cycles.
Malware Security Alerts of the Week
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WebPornoTv WebPornoTv is a program that computer security experts consider to be a potentially unwanted program (PUP) that may prompt many unwanted alerts and advertisements when loaded on a Windows PC. The WebPornoTv may also lead to pornographic content through many explicit sites and sources on the Internet. Read more |
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PC Accelerate Pro PC Accelerate Pro is a potentially unwanted program that seeks the attention of computer users by offering scan features to supposedly detect and fix performance hindering issues. The issue with PC Accelerate Pro is that it does not boost performance on a PC but instead attempts to sell a copy of the PC Accelerate Pro software, which may turn out to be useless in many cases. Read more |
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LockBit Ransomware LockBit Ransomware is known to load mostly through spam email attachments where it may initialize after opening to seek out certain file types and encrypt the files. LockBit Ransomware's process for encrypting files is mostly to make demands to the user to pay a substantial ransom fee for supposedly getting a decryption key to restore the encrypted files. Read more |
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DNS Unlocker DNS Unlocker is an adware application that may load when installing freeware apps or bundled software. When loaded, DNS Unlocker may offer many questionable functions or products that may modify the DNS or IP settings of a PC. The DNS Unlocker threat may take place due to an initial issue or modification of DNS and IP settings, which are specific Internet protocol settings that allow a system to access the Internet through the proper secure channels. Read more |
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This Week’s Most Interesting Computer Security and Malware News
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Cybercriminals Sticking to Coronavirus and Financial Themes for Phishing Scams The COVID-19/Coronavirus pandemic remains to be one of the most exploited news topics by cybercrooks, which is lead to an uptick in financial-themed phishing scams for computer users around the world that tout subject lines related to COVID-19. Computer users should beware and be on alert at all times for such threats. |
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Hackers Are Spreading Trump Propaganda Through Roblox The 2020 U.S. presidential election is heating up and hackers are busier than ever attempting to leverage the election cycle through sources such as Roblox, which has so far been a successful method of spreading fake information and potential malware. |
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US Cyber Command Warns Foreign Hackers Likely to Exploit PAN-OS Security Bug The US Cyber Command is making strong warnings of how foreign hackers are to exploit vulnerabilities and an OS security bug within Windows PCs, which is an effort that may be propagated within the US presidential election cycle. |