Greedy cyber criminals have recently published a new version of POLIZEI Cybercrime Investigation Department virus that targets Canadian PC and Android phone users mainly. With different UI (User Interface) and French, POLIZEI Cybercrime Investigation Department virus talks the same thing and aims at the same goal which is money. Legalese, Law Articles, countdown and serious consequence not to fulfill money submission are the common jugglery both encrypting ransomware and non-encrypting ransomware virus employ. For this version, POLIZEI Cybercrime Investigation Department virus asks for €100 within 72 hours.
Hitherto, the so-called police virus has been become the focus that the online computer users pay close attention to in the PCs security circles. The police virus self purportedly on behalf high authority of enforcement agency attacks online users across world since the first quarter in 2012, exploiting frequently-used deceptive tactic that catching a pretense of people have been violating specific online laws like distributing copyrighted media, child pornography to lock their computers. Meanwhile, providing with full-screen PC or Android lock page alleges victims are obliged to pay a random of quotation in form of Ukash, PaySafecard, or MoneyPak otherwise a related criminal prosecution spontaneously against them.
All scaring warnings declared on the police virus page are purportedly attributed from enforcement agency, offering basic precautions and focusing on threatening victims to refrain from cybercriminal case by paying demanding fine. However, the truth is a scam Android virus. The sort of police virus is carefully crafted by cybercriminals to swindle money from victimized computer users. Moreover, the police virus has its own variants and differs from name, flag, and language according to the target victim geolocation. For instance, United Kingdom Police Virus and New Zealand Police Ukash Virus spreading in various European countries; Canadian Police Virus and Australian Federal Police Virus Android malware planning to target users in North America especially to computer users located in Canada.
A wide range of computer/Android users become the victims by a malware called “Ransomware” which restricts access to a computer as well as Android system allegedly on behalf of local law enforcement agencies. Ransomware is not new for computer users. It has been clearly outlined the concept back in 1996, originated from a paper entitled “Cryptovirology: Extortion-Based Security Threats and Countermeasures”, written by security experts at Columbia University and IBM. Ransomware is initially popular in Russia and has spread internationally in 2013. Canada is a freshly developed stronghold for ransomware. By virtue of sophisticated techniques, the Canadian ransomware can analyze detailed system environment in order to display different bogus notifications for criminal extortion, collectively referred to Canadian Government PC Locked Virus. A list of 6 typical Canadian PC locked virus, aggregated by VilmaTech Computer Experts on the basic of Google recourse, in order to help computer and Android users to get a better knowledge of Canadian ransomware.
The Metropolitan British Police virus belongs to the category of ransomware that originates from the infamous Trojan Urausy family. Being designed as a typical computer/Android locker virus, the Metropolitan British Police virus always restrict the access to compromised machine and demand ransom form victims. Generally, the Metropolitan British Police virus uses the name of Serios (misspelled “Serious”) Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) which serves as a non-departmental public body of the Government of United Kingdom to strengthen its authenticity. The Metropolitan British Police virus can permeate onto a PC or Android Phone through exploiting system vulnerabilities and drop a malign Reveton or Citadel Trojan to aggressively lock user’s access to Windows as well as Android system.
Your Browser Has Been Locked virus ( Android Lock) is newly ransomware developed by cybercriminals to especially attack PC users’ Internet browsers in order for blackmailing money. Although it is the newer Macintosh operating systems such as the Mac OS X and Android phone, the malicious ransomware like Your Browser Has Been Locked virus still can compromise them. We have to admit that the Apple OS is more secure than many versions of Windows, any Third-Party Windows software, plug-ins, or other add-ons. Once you have installed various those things onto the computer that connect to the Internet, they possibly can introduce their own security vulnerabilities.
In addition, the most common way utilized by the Your Browser Has Been Locked virus Android malware to attack a Mac computer or Android phone is through a third-party browser and browser plugins like Adobe Reader, Flash, and Java. The key focus on most Mac users will have these plugins installed and enabled on the computer, but in doing so compromises the overall security of the system and the Your Browser Has Been Locked ransomware Android lock can seize the chances to slip into its target computer. You can see the malicious ransmoware screenshot as below.
It has been widely heard that Ukash virus locks down computers & Android devices and asks for a fine that can be up to 300 US Dollars/ Euro/ CAD/ AUD for laws infringement on watching pornography, download copyrighted materials, spreading terrorism and the like. Ukash virus is what we call ransomware, which mainly stays active in western countries, that invades into a computer & Android system with Trojan to acquire victim’s IP address, system language, and the access to build-in camera before displaying a counterfeit law-breaking message entitled the governmental department accordingly. Ukash virus is not a specific virus, instead, it is used in a general sense. We made the word ‘Ukash virus’ simply because such payment method is commonly adopted by cyber criminal to collect the non-existent fine. Herein, we put some famous version of Ukash virus to have wide range of PC and Android users to look at due to the limit space:
International Cyber Security Protection Alliance blocks computers’ screen or Android phone and declares you have to pay a fine of $100 – $300 in form of a MoneyPak, Ukash or Paysafecard code, which is a scam virus. It is classified as ransomware infection which engages in threatening and forcing unwary computer users and Android phone users into paying the non-existent fine by accusing of activities against copyright laws, viewing or distributing pornography, spam distribution etc. Since the locked down message with full screen alerts seems more authentic, the International Cyber Security Protection Alliance virus Android Lock has successfully swindled money from those unsuspecting computer users through performing the nasty common trick usually exploited by cybercriminal.
The common trick mainly includes two points. One is that the Cyber Security Protection Alliance virus makers display the designed scam virus notification that pretends to be from an official law enforcement agency like FBI. With computer locked up by the notification screen, victims must be scared and at loss what to do. The other is, because of your illegal activities (which can either be real or forged by the virus), some criminal cases must post against you. And you can see referred law Articles from the Cyber Security Protection Alliance virus locked screen. Meanwhile, it also deceptively points out that your PC will get unlocked in 1 to 72 hours after the money is put into the State’s account. As a matter of fact, the infected computers are still locked after payments. Taking both of two points into consideration, many innocent computer users must have fallen into the members of the Cyber Security Protection Alliance virus scam victims.
CryptoLocker virus is a hazardous ransomware, which disguises itself as a legitimate attachment to lock target computer/Android phone and encrypt all your personal data on drive. To be specific, CryptoLocker virus encrypts certain files existed on local and mounted network drives through using RSA public-key cryptography. When the CryptoLocker is activated on your PC/Android phone, a private key will be created and stored only on the controlled servers. Usually, CryptoLocker virus will display a notification which states that your personal files are encrypted due to the encryption of a unique public key RSA-2048 generated for your computer/Android phone. In order to decode your personal file, you will be demanded to pay a certain fee through MoneyPak vouchers or Bitcoins. At the beginning, the ransom could be around 400 USD/ 400 EUR to gain the decryption key. In the past, users were able to utilize the main CryptoLocker program to decrypt files by paying 2 Bitcoins. When PC/Android phone users get the required registry key and download the infection as a file called 0388.exe, they can run CryptoLocker again and pay the ransom. However, till now, the 0388.exe files are not available to be downloaded. The new current price of Bitcoins has been significantly increased from 2 Bitcoins to 10 Bitcoins. It is about $400 USD to over $2,100 USD.
Den Svenska Polisen IT-Sakerhet (aka Den Svenska Polisen It-Säkerhet virus) is known as a revolting Sweden Android ransom virus which belongs to the family of Reveton Ukash virus. As the same as other typical ransom viruses such as Royal Canadian Mounted Police virus, Police Central e-crime Unit ransomware, Den Svenska Polisen IT-Sakerhet Android malware has the common symptoms that will lock target machine seriously while displaying bogus notification to threaten computer & Android users to pay fine in order to release their locked machines. Usually, Den Svenska Polisen It-sakerhet Ukash Android Lock virus shows the fake message which claims that you have done something lawless so that you are formed to pay 500 of Swedish Krona around $75 as a fine to emancipate your computer. It is clear that we need to remove Den Svenska Polisen IT-Sakerhet scam from Android and PC timely due to its nasty properties, and we should never pay money on such kind of ransom virus.
Most of the time, Den Svenska Polisen IT-Sakerhet Android virus is distributed by malicious web pages (may contain Porn, video or games contents), distrusted free applications and sponsored links in Email. To avoid getting infected with such nasty ransom virus, we should be cautious while using any unreliable online resource. Once being inserted into compromised machine successfully, Den Svenska Polisen IT-Sakerhet Ukash Android threat will utilize its maximum efficiency to spread its malicious codes and registry files, which will make chaos on affected machine badly. Some victims may realize that they cannot use their computer or Android phone at all due to locked screen. Though you may install powerful malware remover or antivirus program in PC & Android phone, they cannot remove Den Svenska Polisen IT-Sakerhet Android scam at all.
PC users mainly in western countries, whose computer are frequently locked down by ransomware scams. People hate them because ransomware scams are capable of disabling major PC functions and imposing residual damages without being removed easily. Among victims, there are some simply scared by the counterfeit police warning message to submit the so called ‘ransom’ requested for cancelling the lawsuit that claims to put victims in jail unless the ‘ransom’ is collected. The amount of ‘ransom’ can be different from each ransomware scam, but it will not be lower than a hundred USD dollar/ Pound/ Euro. After a long-term observation, we have found that it is of a high rate to be infected with ransomware scams. A list of top 10 ransomware scams offered hereinafter, formulated according to the data (of April to August) from Google, aims at helping victims and wide range of PC users get to know better about them.
