According to a Symantec report, 556 million people have been victims of scams in 2012, all the worldwide. This represents a cost of € 83 billion and at least 18 victims every second. Starting today, experts believe that at least 100 million malware exist, including 95.000 new types are created every day
The latest kind of Internet scams is called ransomware: . These are fairly sophisticated virus, developed by cyber criminal networks based in Eastern Europe to take control of hundreds of computer people perceiving impressive amounts. Through an ingenious process, hackers threaten people to extort money fictitious fines.
This is done through "botnets", ie robots that allow hackers to penetrate remote computers. Contamination to a new computer is via attachments in e-mails, links from social networking sites or advertise pirated content that takes the user to a malicious site that tests computer vulnerabilities. And once the vulnerability is exploited, the virus is installed. The user sees the screen occupied by a spam message as: "Warning, your computer is locked due to an offense following the detection of offenses" (then a list of sites the user has visited appears). Then comes the reception "to unlock your computer, you must pay 0 € in the next three days if you do not pay within the specified time, your computer will be confiscated and you will be in court.".
The fines must be paid by wire transfer or Western Union so that "the computer is unlocked within 24 hours. "Sure, the screen is frozen once the ransom was paid, cybercriminals do not even make the punishment to unlock the computer when they received the ransom.
This technical discovered in the United States by the FBI is now raging in Europe. the misappropriated funds are laundered in online casinos before being collected on the accounts in Russia and Ukraine.
to avoid becoming a ransomware victim, make sure you follow these rules
• Do not pay the ransom. If your computer has been the victim of an attack and your screen is "frozen", a cleaning procedure is proposed by the Site stopransomware.fr of anto-ransomware
• Be careful with updates to the computer. to limit the computer defects, enable automatic updates of the operating system. This allows in particular to protect Internet browsing software or mailboxes
• regularly back up your most important files. Data backup can be done on a removable hard drive or USB stick
• Do not click on links in emails that come from people you do not know or do not have the used to contact you in this way
• alert authorities. When a computer is infected, the police experts may be requested. You will be well explained on the steps to get rid of the virus
The best solution is to use a VPN. Thank you to a VPN service, your IP address is hidden and can not be identified. When you connect to the Internet via an unsecured connection through the VPN, you get strong encryption, which will not allow anyone to know which sites you visited. And your Internet connection is secure wherever you are. A special VPN also allows you to protect your connections from your smartphone or tablet. Think of it as ransomware on mobile systems is also becoming fashionable.
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