According to BitDefender, cyber-criminals in Russia, while making untrue charges about child pornography, are adding actual software harm within one fresh scam, which tries wringing 500 rubles ($17) out of victimized individuals. MalwareCity.com published this on September 5, 2011.
The software damage culminates from a malicious Trojan named Trojan.Agent.ARVP that's disseminated through innocuous-appearing web-links. When contaminated, the victim gets an alert that there are evidences of child pornography on his PC; therefore, he has to make a payment as fine. Further, the demand is hastened with the Trojan malware effectively locking the PC that can be restored only after paying the ransom.
However, the problem doesn't end there. The Trojan, in addition to alerting the victim, compromises his PC, exhibiting a message, which covers the screen except 10% of it as also stops the systems' OS from functioning appropriately, BitDefender says.
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