Reveton Ransomware Uses Fake Fbi Message To Extort Money

snoopy · Aug 10, 2012

I just finished helping someone with removing this fake FBI message a couple of days ago. Hope no one else gets fooled.

Thursday, August 9, 2012
Reveton Ransomware uses Fake FBI Message to Extort Money

The FBI today warned of Internet-borne malware masquerading as a message from the law enforcement agency that locks computers until the user pays a fine for allegedly downloading and/or distributing illegal content.

"We're getting inundated with complaints," Donna Gregory of the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), said in a prepared statement, referring to an uptick in callers complaining that an FBI message froze their computers. The malicious code is the Reveton virus, used in conjunction with the Citadel malware platform, that first came to the FBI's attention in 2011. The agency's IC3 issued an alert in May 2012 to warn consumers of the ransomware, which in some forms even turns on computer webcams to show the victim's picture on the frozen screen.

When someone visits a compromised Web site, the malware installs and immediately locks down the machine while replacing the monitor screen with a fake FBI warning that the user's IP address has been linked to child pornography sites or other illegal online activity. The language is one tip-off the message may not be legitimate.
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Full story here: https://threatpost.c...rt-money-080912

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