General Explanation Type: Ransomware Degree of destruction: high Prevalence: average What is Ransomware? Ransomware is a type of malware that attempts to encrypt important information of the user and blackmail to return the data to the users. Generally, the encrypting method could not be decrypted and is a common way to pay the ransom by…
General Explanation Type: Adware Degree of destruction: average Prevalence: average What is adware? Adware is advertising malware that results in showing advertising or appearing multiple banners in your system and encourages you to buy products or use their services. Programmers of these types of malware, use to add relevant codes to notification send services to…
General Explanation Type: Spyware Degree of destruction: average Prevalence: average What is spyware? By installing Spyware on your phone, the user’s data security is always under threat and each second, it is possible to be stolen and received by an unauthorized person. Usually, spyware is installed on the phone secretly and out of the user’s…
General description Type: Spyware Degree of destruction: average Prevalence: average What is Spyware? By installing Spyware on your phone, the user’s data security is always under threat and each second, it is possible to be stolen and received by an unauthorized person. Usually, spyware is installed on the phone secretly and out of the user’s…
General Explanation Type: RiskTool Degree of destruction: average Prevalence: average What is RiskTool? In general, this type of application is not designed for malicious purposes and is not malware. However, it may use your system resources in an undesirable or annoying way and perform some actions for malicious purposes. RiskTools are types of adware applications…
General Explanation Type: Trojan Degree of destruction: average Prevalence: average What is Ransomware? Ransomware is a kind of malware that enables criminals to lock the victim’s phone so that the user cannot use his/her phone. Sometimes criminals only unlock a small part such as a keyboard so the victim can pay the ransom money to…
General Explanation Type: PUA (Potential Unwanted Application) Degree of destruction: average Prevalence rate: average What is PUA? These are malware that often includes adware or install toolbars or such aims but is not like other malicious malware. This category of malware maybe perform some actions which are not approved or expected by the user and…
General Explanation Type: backdoor Degree of destruction: average Prevalence: average What is “Backdoor” malware? Backdoor malware is applications that give the possibility of bypassing the security mechanisms of a system to the hacker and giving different resources of the system to infiltrators. Hackers can enter the desired system by use of this method without any…
General Explanation Type: Trojan Degree of destruction: average Prevalence: average What is Phishing? Phishing is a social engineering technique in which an attacker will mislead users with it and will steal his/her personal information such as user name, password, bank card number, internet password, and CVV2. Conventional and current methods of phishing involve using charming…
General Explanation Type: Trojan Degree of destruction: average Prevalence: average What is a Trojan? Trojans are malware that revealed themselves in the format of an applicable and useful tool. Accordingly, the user downloads and installs them and infects the system without noticing that it is malware. Trojans, usually after installation, act as a backdoor so…