Threat Database Ransomware 'Gobierno de España' Ransomware

'Gobierno de España' Ransomware

By ESGI Advisor in Ransomware

The 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware is the Spanish variant of a well known online scam. Malware like the 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware Trojan is used to scam inexperienced computer users, convincing them that they need to pay a bogus police fine. If the 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware is installed on your computer, ESG security researchers strongly recommend the use of a strong anti-malware program to remove this threat. Under no circumstances should you follow the 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware message's instructions or pay any kind of police fine. There is no real connection between the 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware and Spain's police or government, regardless of what the 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware message claims.

The Old Tactics used by the 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware

The 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware carries out a well known scam that is usually executed by a category of malware known as Police Ransomware. These types of infections essentially take the victim's computer hostage and demand the payment of a fake police fine as a ransom. Most threats similar to the 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware carry out the same basic scam:

  1. The 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware usually infects a computer after the computer user is exposed to other threats, visits an attack website or falls for a social engineering scam.
  2. Once the 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware is installed, the 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware makes harmful changes to the infected computer's settings that prevent the computer user from opening files or accessing the infected computer's desktop. Essentially, the 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware prevents the victims from accessing their computers, locking it down.
  3. When the computer user tries to access the infected computer, the 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware presents a message that covers the full screen and claims that the affected computer was blocked by the Spain's police. The 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware message is written in Spanish and claims that the infected computer was blocked by Spain's police due to its involvement in illegal online activities. According to the 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware, the PC user must pay a fictitious police 'fine' to unblock the affected computer.

It is important to note that the 'Gobierno de Espana' Ransomware is just one of many localized variants of this scam. Computers located outside of Spain will instead be infected with variants corresponding to those countries' governments and police agencies, such as the 'Police Judiciaire Fédérale' Ransomware, the 'Ministry of Public Safety Canada' Ransomware and the 'Unité Spéciale de la Police' Ransomware, among many more.

Messages

The following messages associated with 'Gobierno de España' Ransomware were found:

El ordenador se ha bloqueado
La actividad de su ordenador fue detenido a causa del la ciberactividad no autorizada. […]
La pena pecuniaria es de 100 EUR. Debe pagarla durante 48 horas despues del bloqueo del ordenador. Si la multa no es pagada, sera iniciada la causa penal contra usted sin derecho de pagar la pena pecuniaria. Su ordenador sera confiscado por el Depratamento de Lucha contra la Ciberactividad (dentro de 48 horas).

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