Malware Security Alerts Weekly Report for March 29 - April 4, 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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Malware Security Alerts of the Week
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PC Speed CatThe PC Speed Cat software, also seen as 'PC SpeedCAT,' is promoted as "the one-stop PC Performance Optimization software for everyone" on the landing page at h[tt]p://www.pcspeedcat[.]com. The PC Speed Cat program is published by a company called SpeedCAT, LLC that you may be lead to believe is a Silver Certified partner of Microsoft Corp, but it is not. Read more |
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Pysa RansomwarePysa Ransomware is a malware threat that belongs to the Mespinoza Ransomware family of threats that are known for infiltrating a Windows PC only to encrypt files and lock up the system just before making strong demands to pay a ransom fee for supposedly unlocking the same files. Read more |
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PC CleanerPC Cleaner is a fake security program, which is part of a well-known computer scam. Applications like PC Cleaner are known as rogues, rogue security application or rogue defragmenters. Read more |
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Trojan.Gen.2Trojan.Gen.2 is a dangerous computer trojan that may represent security risk for the affected PC system and its network environment. Trojan.Gen.2 may try to establish connection with the remote host once it has infiltrated a computer system. Read more |
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UDS:DangerousObject.Multi.GenericWindows Active Guard is a malware program that belongs to the FakeVimes family of fake security software. Windows Active Guard carries out a common online scam that involves pretending to be a real security program in order to convince inexperienced computer users that they must pay for an expensive 'upgrade'. Read more |
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