There's a new extortion trojan in circulation
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There's a new extortion trojan in circulation
This one attempts to steal victims' money by bullying them to pay a "pre-trial settlement" to cover a "Copyright holder fine".
The victim is informed that an "Antipiracy foundation scanner" has found illegal torrents from the system. If he won't pay
$400 (via a credit card transaction), he might face jail time and huge fines.
ICPP Copyright Foundation is Fake - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab
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Thanks, Jacee.
Considering the number of software pirates who do download illegal torrents, that is a clever one. What would be ideal is if this nasty was only via torrents and people with pirated software quickly uninstalled it! (I know, dream on.)
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That was fast work. Good! (I hope everyone realizes I was being facetious. I really don't want to see anyone ripped off by any scam.)
The Yahoo link doesn't seem to be working either.
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I edited the link, it should work now.
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