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Brendan Smith

Cybersecurity analyst covering malware families, suspicious files, and detection alerts. Brendan focuses on clear explanations of what a warning means, when it may be a false positive, and which cleanup steps are appropriate.

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Ransomware · September 20, 2020

Nypg virus ☣ How to decrypt .nypg files?

Nypg is a DJVU family of ransomware-type infections. This ransomware encrypts your private files (video, photos, documents). The encrypted files can be tracked by...

CoinMiner Malware · September 17, 2020

MrbMiner Malware Infected Thousands of MSSQL Databases

Specialists of the Chinese company Tencent Security spoke about the MrbMiner malware that installed cryptocurrency miners on Microsoft SQL servers (MSSQL) formerly. According to...