Toss Carnival Game Extension
Posted: January 5, 2018
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 10/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 60 |
First Seen: | April 28, 2023 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The Toss Carnival is a potentially unsafe Google Chrome extension offered by surt.me, which is capable of changing the settings of the default search engine and displaying advertisements and pop-ups on any sites visited by the users. The Toss Carnival Game Chrome extension gets promoted through the use of a corrupted JavaScript code from surt.me, one that forces the users to install the extension. The result of that is that the browser may be redirected to surt.me from adult entertainment sites, crack or keygen sites as well.
The surt.me website runs a JavaScript that shows a dialog box, telling users they have to 'Add Toss Carnival Game.' Clicking on the cancel button once will change it to add a tickbox that gives the option to prevent the page from creating additional dialogs. Once that is done, the tab will go into full-screen mode, and the user will be prompted to install the Toss Carnival Game extension. The ID of the extension is bbjnbbkmmlfamopoapkcbhknhjolebll.
Typical signs of the presence of Toss Carnival Game can be recognized by the following:
- Advertisement banners getting injected into Web pages.
- Browser search queries been tracked and redirected.
- Random text gets turned into hyperlinks.
- The browser homepage and the default search engine may be changed as well.
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