'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware
The 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware Trojan is part of a Police Ransomware scam that attacks computer users located in specific, targeted states in the United States. There have been observed that the recent attacks of the 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware are intended to steal money from inexperienced computer users in the United States. The 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware scam is very similar to the many Police Ransomware infections that have been observed recently, such as the 'Cyber Command of New York' Ransomware, the 'Cyber Command of California' Ransomware and the 'Cyber Command of South Texas' Ransomware and many more. The only difference between the 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware variants and other common Police Ransomware infections is that the 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware is used to target specific states within the country, making the 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware attack more specific than many of its predecessors.
The 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware Attacks are Region-Specific
The 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware includes information about the infected computer's location, usually announcing the infected computer's state as part of the attack. This is information that may be obtained from the targeted computer systems IP address and system settings. The 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware variants have attacked computer systems in the states of North Carolina, Arizona, Ohio, South Texas, Pennsylvania, Utah, South Texas, Washington, Maryland, New York, Oregon, Nevada, New Jersey, Hawaii, Indiana, Florida and Georgia.
The Fines of Ransomware Attacks are Raising!
The main purpose of the 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware is to steal money from inexperienced computer users. The 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware attacks demand payment of a $300 USD fine from the victim. Basically, the 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware takes the infected computer hostage, demanding the payment of this bogus fine in order to unblock access to the infected computer. The combination of a Winlocker that blocks access to the operating system and social engineering tactics used to scare inexperienced computer users makes the 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware scam particularly effective against inexperienced computer users.
The 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware Uses Social Engineering to Infect Your Computer
There are several ways in which the 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware may enter a computer. The 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware may enter the infected computer through social engineering. The 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware may often also be bundled along with popular torrent files or distributed using spam email attachments.
Messages
The following messages associated with 'USA Cyber Crime Investigations' Ransomware were found:
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USA Cyber Crime Investigations
Cyber Command of [State name] (Arizona, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Texas, Utah, Maryland, Washington, Oregon, New York, New Jersey, Nevada, Indiana, Hawaii, Georgia, Florida or California) ATTENTION! Your computer has been blocked up for safety reasons listed below. You are accused of viewing/storage and/or dissemination of banned pornography (child pornography/zoophilia/rape etc). You have violated World Declaration on non-proliferation of child pornography. You are accused of committing the crime envisaged by Article 161 of United States of America criminal law. Article 161 of United States of America criminal law provides for the punishment of deprivation of liberty for terms from 5 to 11 years. Also, you are suspected of violation of "Copyright and Related rights Law" (downloading of pirated music, video, ware.) and of use and/or dissemination of copyrighted content. Thus, you are suspected of violation of Article 148 of United States of America criminal law. Article 148 of United States of America criminal law provides for the punishment of deprivation of liberty for terms from 3 to 7 years or 150 to 550 basic amounts fine. It was from your computer, that unauthorized access had been stolen to information of State importance and to data closed for public Internet access. Unauthorized access could have been arranged by yourself purposely on mercenary motives, or without your knowledge and consent, provided your computer could have been affected by malware. Consequently, you are suspected - until the investigation is held - of innocent infringement of Article 215 of United States of America criminal law ("Law on negligent and reckless disregard of computers and computer aids"). Article 215 of United States of America criminal law provides for the punishment of deprivation of liberty for terms from 5 to 8 years and/or up to 100.0000 fine. Further, after information of your personal computer was examined, it was found out that your personal computer had been regularly used for bulk spamming, either arranged by yourself purposely on mercenary motives, or without your knowledge and consent, provided your computer could have been affected by malware. Bulk-spamming is a way to disseminate malware of banned pornography. Consequently, you are suspected - until the investigation is held - of innocent infringement of Article 301 of United States of America criminal law ("On bulk-spamming and malware (virus) dissemination`). Article 301 of United States of America criminal law provides for the punishment of deprivation of liberty for term up to 5 years, and up to 250.0000 fine. Please, mind that both your personal identities and location are well identified, and criminal case can be opened against you in course of 96 hours as of commission of crimes per above Articles. Criminal case can be submitted to court. However, pursuant to Amendments to the United States of America criminal law dated October 9, 2013, and according to Declaration on Human Rights, your disregard of law may be interpreted as unintended (if you had no incident before) and no arraignment will follow. However, it is a matter of whether you have paid the fine to the Treasury (to the effect of initiatives aimed at protection of cyberspace). The penalty set must be paid in course of 48 hours as of the breach. On expiration of the term, 48 hours that follow will be used for automatic collection of data on yourself and your misconduct, and criminal case wilt be opened against you. Amount of firm is 300$. You can settle the fine with MoneyPak or MoneyGram xpress Packet vouchers. As soon as the money arrives to the Treasury account, your computer will be unblocked in course of 24 hours. Then in 7 day term you should remedy the breaches associated with your computer. Otherwise, your computer will be blocked up again and criminal case will be opened against yourself (with no option to pay fine). Please mind, that you should enter or4 verified pussy of vouchers and abstain from caching out of vouchers once used for fine payment. If erroneous pussy were entered, or if attempt was made to cancel vouchers after transaction, then, apart from above breaches, you will be charged with fraud (Article 377 of United States of America criminal law; 1 to 3 years of imprisonment) and criminal case will be opened. |
