The “Capital One – Card Purchase Is Under Review” email is part of a phishing campaign targeting Capital One login credentials. The email falsely informs recipients that their Capital One cards have been temporarily locked because of an excessive number of purchases. This has supposedly triggered Capital One’s security protocols, and if users want to use their cards again, they…
EpiStart (EpiBrowser) is a rogue browser, classified as a potentially unwanted program due to its behavior and installation methods. EpiStart is based on the Chromium open-source project, and forces users to use a fake search engine that does not generate any results. It promotes the epibrowser.com search engine. The search engine does not work and instead, it redirects to Yahoo. It’s…
“Norton Subscription Payment Has Failed” is a fake alert that informs users about their supposedly expired Norton anti-virus subscription. Users may get randomly redirected to a site hosting this fake alert, regardless of whether they have a Norton subscription or not. While interacting with the notification will lead you to the legitimate Norton website, Norton has nothing to do with…
REDKAW ransomware is a generic ransomware infection. It’s a type of infection that takes users’ files hostage by encrypting them. Encrypted files become unopenable, and ransomware operators demand payment for a decryptor. Unfortunately, if your files have been encrypted and have the .redkaw file extension, you may not be able to recover them. At the moment, only users who have…
The “Update Your Webmail Account Settings” email falls into the phishing email category. The email tries to trick users into revealing their webmail login credentials. It claims that recipients need to update their account settings to ensure uninterrupted access and log in via the provided link. If users click on the button in the email, they will be taken to…
If your browser suddenly redirects you to search.withaiforchrome.com whenever you initiate a search, your computer is infected with a browser hijacker. It’s not a serious infection but it does make unwanted changes to a browser’s settings and tries to redirect to sponsored websites. You likely picked up the infection when installing a free program as such threats usually use the software…
If you notice baselanding.site pop-up ads appearing on your desktop, you’ve allowed the site to show notifications. You were likely redirected to baselanding.site, where you got a browser alert saying “baselanding.site wants to show notifications”. If you clicked “Allow”, you authorized the site to show notifications on your desktop. baselanding.site is a scam website so its notifications will be ads, which could lead…
richleads.top pop-up ads on the desktop are caused by richleads.top being given permission to show notifications. If these ads are popping up on the right side of your screen, you were likely redirected to richleads.top and clicked “Allow” when shown the “richleads.top wants to show notifications” alert. The site is misusing a legitimate browser feature that allows sites to request permission to…