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…
What is ldnews.exe
ldnews.exe is an executable file associated with the Android Emulator LDPlayer. An emulator allows one system to behave like another. For example, software designed for Android OS could be run on Windows using an emulator. LDPlayer is exactly that, it allows Android mobile games to run on Windows so users can play them using a mouse, etc.…
What is “WIN.DLL011150 Error” scam
WIN.DLL011150 Error” scam refers to a tech-support scam that will try to get you to call a scam number. Tech-support scams are very common, and users usually see them if they have adware installed or browse questionable sites that redirect. This particular fake alert claims that there has been an WIN.DLL011150 Error and that your computer’s…
What is appmodule.exe
appmodule.exe seems to be associated with a cryptocurrency mining trojan. Cryptocurrency miners are trojan infections that use computers’ resources to mine for cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and Monero. These infections don’t do long-term damage to the computer but are very disruptive while installed. The trojan’s extensive usage of computer’s resources means that the computer will run much slower than…
What is Managed by your organization
Managed by your organization is a message displayed by Google Chrome when a group policy is configured for the browser. You can see the message at the bottom when you open the menu, and in your browser’s settings. If you’re seeing the message on your work computer, it means that an administrator is controlling Google…