Europol, the European police trade unions, announced the dismantling of a criminal gang. Its members are accused of having infected hundreds of thousands of computers via a ransonmware, that this type of malware that locks the user's files in exchange for payment of a ransom. For payment, criminals pose as police officers. On the infected computer displays a message informing the user that he / she was guilty of illegal activity and must pay a fine.
Indeed, in late 2011, French Internet users had their computers compromised by malicious advertising broadcast on streaming sites. Once the malicious code run, a warning appears on the screen with the logo flew to the French police and ask for the payment of a 0 euro fine.
Although it is difficult to assess the exact number of victims, Europol estimates that hundreds of thousands of Europeans have been affected by the activities of this criminal group. Considering a fine of 100 euros on average, these pirates have collected several million.
According to Reuters, the alleged leader of the gang is a Russian man of 27, who was arrested last December in the UAE. Ten other suspected members, all from Eastern Europe (six Russians, two Ukrainians and two Georgian people) of the organization were arrested last week by the Spanish authorities.
During the arrest of the gang, nearly 0 credit cards (used to withdraw money from victims through online payment services such as Ukash and MoneyPak) and about 26,000 euros cash were seized by Spanish police.
An information site on the subject of ransomware www.stopransomware.com recently opened. Still, the best advice is not to pay, but to protect your computer. First install a good anti-virus software. And if you want your Internet connection is secure and anonymous, choose a VPN. A VPN service encrypts your Internet connections and keeps secret the sites you've visited and the information you have left on these sites. This protects all your Internet activities with a secure VPN tunnel virtual, which includes an extremely strong military encryption. Indeed, all traffic through the VPN utilizes AES-256 to encrypt data. AES stands for "Advanced Coding Standards" - a symmetric encryption standard adopted by the US government. It has a fixed block size of 128 bits, with 256-bit key lengths. The AES cipher has been extensively tested and analyzed. It is now used worldwide
AES is the first figure the public approved by the NSA -. National Security Agency - for classified information
Therefore, any connection or pirate decrypting data through the VPN tunnel is strictly impossible "Top secret.".
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