Julie Splinters

Anti-malware specialist

Brief biography of Julie Splinters Julie Splinters is the News Editor of 2-spyware. Her bachelor was English Philology. However, her old interest in Japan and, particularly East Japan, motivated her to enter East Asia studies. While gaining knowledge about economic, political and social development of this region, she got acquainted with the issue of cyber operations capabilities. Particularly, North Korea‘s cyber capabilities became a highly intriguing topic for her leading her to this position in 2-spyware. Besides the work, she is also employed as a freelance English-Russian translator. Elaborating on her hobbies, Julie spends her free time in ballroom dance classes. Her other free time interests include martial arts and watching anime. The motto which inspires her – “Never give up.” She also admires Morgan Freeman and Phoolan Devi.

Ransomware, Viruses

Kryptonite ransomware virus

Kryptonite continues its malicious tasks under the name of RBY Kryptonite is a crypto-malware that has been spreading as a fake Snake game. Due

21 Sep 2017 Julie Splinters

Stealing programs, Viruses

Search.gsearch.io virus

Fix your browser by deleting Search.gsearch.io from it Users who discover Search.gsearch.io in their browser should know that the system was contaminated by a browser-hijacking

19 Sep 2017 Julie Splinters

News, Viruses and parasites

ExpensiveWall virus infiltrates over 50 Google Play Store apps

Another fatal blow to the Android community The cyber assault on Android mobile users continues. Since the appearance of Judy malware several months ago,

15 Sep 2017 Julie Splinters

Stealing programs, Viruses

EmailBeautifier virus

EmailBeautifier virus asks for incredibly intrusive privacy-related permissions EmailBeautifier virus is a dangerous browser extension that computer users can install unknowingly. It suggests adding

15 Sep 2017 Julie Splinters

News, Security

Android users, it’s time to patch your devices!

Have Older than Android Oreo 8.0 Version? Researchers have recently identified a vulnerability which, unfortunately, all Android versions, except the latest Oreo 8, is

11 Sep 2017 Julie Splinters

Ransomware, Viruses

Locked_file ransomware virus

The new ransomware appends .Locked_file extensions to encrypted files and demands a ransom Locked_file ransomware is a new computer virus that targets Windows operating

11 Sep 2017 Julie Splinters

Ransomware, Viruses

Cerber 3.0 ransomware virus

Cerber 3.0 virus hits the spotlight Cerber virus developers seem to be working quite restlessly as they bombarded the online world once again –

7 Sep 2017 Julie Splinters

News, Security

Another data breach: MongoDB 26 000 servers infiltrated

MongoDB faces another huge data breach MongoDB, which functions as a free set of databases for storing documents, suffers again from a massive attack

5 Sep 2017 Julie Splinters

Ransomware, Viruses

Haze ransomware virus

Haze ransomware pretends to be Petya to scare computer users Haze ransomware is another suspicious virus that was first spotted on August 30. The

4 Sep 2017 Julie Splinters

Ransomware, Viruses

SyncCrypt ransomware virus

SyncCrypt ransomware applies a new disguise SyncCrypt virus operates as crypto-virus which encode files with AES cipher and demand ransom. After the encryption is

1 Sep 2017 Julie Splinters

Stealing programs, Viruses

Time-to-read.ru virus

Is it worth adding Time-to-read.ru to my browser? Time-to-read.ru virus is a browser hijacker which is clearly designed to trick Russian users that it is

31 Aug 2017 Julie Splinters

Ransomware, Viruses

OhNo! ransomware virus

OhNo! ransomware is after your files OhNo! virus operates as ransomware which is designed to encode files. Currently, it is still under development as

31 Aug 2017 Julie Splinters

News, Spam and phishing

Stay vigilant: Hurricane Harvey scams are on their way

Felons Plague the Web with Fake Charity Scam Sites While the world‘s attention is directed to the East Asia, specifically, to North Korea, which

30 Aug 2017 Julie Splinters

Ransomware, Viruses

AAC ransomware virus

AAC ransomware assaults international virtual community AAC virus is the name of another crypto-malware which encodes data and appends .aac file extension. It seems

24 Aug 2017 Julie Splinters

Browser Hijackers, Viruses

Safe.search.tools virus

Safe.search.tools offers you “safe” search services Safe.search.tools virus is another search engine originating from SafeSearch family of browser hijackers. Though they are not as

24 Aug 2017 Julie Splinters