One of the simplest, yet most effective ways to trick users into clicking somewhere or doing something they shouldn’t is to show them a misleading customized pop-up. Such is the case with the Karakorampeak hijacker site, which is similar to...

I’ve recently come across a lot of users across various forums reporting the same browser issue, where the browser’s search engine and new tab page get replaced by something called DSR Search. Apparently, this is a fake search engine...

Potterfun is a rogue search engine added to browsers by hijacker extensions, such as ZoomFind and SwiftSeek. Like other rogue search engines, this one is solely designed to make money through ads and by gathering user data without actually being...

The rogue SwiftSeek Chrome extension hijacks your browser and messes with its settings by changing the default search engine to fake potterfun.com/q/ search engine (or some other sketchy site) and adding its own policy to the browser. This is very...

ZoomFind is the latest in a long line of browser hijackers that do basically the same thing – they change your browser’s search engine to the fake boyu.com.tr search engine (or another rogue site) and refuse to get removed by enforcing a...

A new wave of browser hijackers that spread and promote the infamous boyu.com.tr search engine appears to be on the rise. Last week we talked about InstantQuest and today we came across a browser hijacker called QuickFind. Like its predecessors...