There's a new extortion trojan in circulation

[Jacee]

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

 

[Corrine]

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.)

 

[Jacee]

Galadriel reported the website is now down ... but added this was just before some people were scammed into paying :shock:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100411040845AA2dqUl

 

[Corrine]

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.

 

[Jacee]

I edited the link, it should work now.