Computer virus convinces users they’ve viewed child porn and must pay a $100 fine

There are still a lot of really dazed multitude on the internet , judging from the latest cozenage the FBI just warned against . An existing computer computer virus , called Citadel , has been repurposed as scam - ware , which notifies users that they ’ve been catch looking at child smut and must pay a $ 100 fine to get off the hook .

Here ’s how it works : Users are lure into run to a URL for a “ tug - by download ” site , which installs a Trojan ( called Reveton ) onto their machine using the Citadel platform . This Trojan then freezes their reckoner and display a word of advice screen ( pictured above ) notifying the user that “ the drug user ’s IP address was identify by the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section as visiting child smut and other illegal subject matter . ” And they have to pay $ 100 to the Federal Government , via credit card or wire transfer , to clear their book .

I do n’t eff what ’s the most insane part of this : That someone would be dumb enough to opine a $ 100 mulct would be enough to pass over out charge of kiddie - pornography possession , or that someone would be dumb enough to go in their credit entry bill data into a random screen that claims to be from the governance . You would have to have an insanely low opinion of our government activity to believe that it would operate this means .

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This word of advice come from theInternet Complaint Crime Center(IC3 ) , which is made up of the FBI and other agencies . The alert warn :

In addition to the ransomware , the Citadel malware continues to manoeuvre on the compromise computer and can be used to institutionalize on-line banking and credit card hoax … . This is an attempt to extort money with the additional possibility of the victim ’s computer being used to enter in online bank faker . If you have invite this or something similar do not observe requital instructions .

And this very much feel like a Crime of the Future , something that would have been thrown in as a weird detail in a cyberpunk novel of the late 1980s . [ IC3viaSC Magazine ]

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