Serios Organised Crime Agency Ransomware

Posted: July 15, 2013

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Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	45

First Seen:	July 15, 2013
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware is a new member of the Urausy family of Police ransomware Trojans, and like its recent ancestors, attempts to block your computer with a fake legal warning while demanding a fee before your PC will be returned to normal. Similar to other members of its family, the 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware is designed to target European victims, and its fraudulent legal warning includes references to British law enforcement organizations, but SpywareRemove.com malware researchers warn that the 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware is an illegal program that should not be paid off in return for its attacks. Undoing the 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware's system lockdown simply is a matter of using standard PC security procedures for blocking the 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware, which can then be followed by deleting the 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware with any trustworthy anti-malware program.

The 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware: Serious About Crime – But Not So Much About Spelling

Police ransomware Trojans usually take a fair degree of care in making their fake pop-up warnings look legitimate, but 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware seems to have slipped on the most basic aesthetics of presentation – misspelling its header as 'serios' and including generic warning text that is found on many other members of the Urausy family. With its illegal origins easy to determine, SpywareRemove.com malware experts would hope that relatively few victims of the 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware attacks would give in to the 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware's ransom demands, which are illegal and don't do anything to help your computer.

The 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware's pop-up is designed to accuse you of using your PC for all of the typical bluffs commonly exploited by ransomware-based PC threats, such as alerts about illegal pornography or copyright infringement. In reality, the 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware is installed and makes these attacks without any functions related to detecting any of these crimes. SpywareRemove.com malware experts also can verify that the 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware, contrary to its poorly-worded pop-up's pretension, does not have any links to the Metropolitan British Police, the Cheshire Constabulary or the PCeU.

Being More Organized Than a Sloppy Clone of Other British Ransomware

The 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware doesn't have any major differences from other Police ransomware Trojans based on Urausy, such as the 'Landespolizeidirection' Ransomware, the Politiet Kongeriget Danmark Ransomware, the Suomen Poliisi Ransomware, the Rikspolisstyrelsen Ransomware, the Bundeskriminalamt Ransomware or the Policia Nacional de Uruguay Virus. Since the 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware's may block other applications while the 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware is active, SpywareRemove.com malware research team recommends disabling the 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware as a good start to removing any 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware infection. Booting through a removable hard drive (such as any USB device) often is the most accessible way to do this.

A disabled 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware should be removed with suitable anti-malware tools. Since the 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware doesn't distribute itself, any the 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware-infected PC also may be infected by other PC threats, including Trojans with threat-downloading functions. For this reason and others, SpywareRemove.com malware analysts discourage trying to remove the 'Serious Organised Crime Agency' Ransomware without help from all appropriate security software.

Technical Details

Additional Information

The following messages's were detected:

#	Message
1	Serios Organised Crime Agency (Soca) British Metropolitan Police Police Central e-crime Unit Cheshire Constabulary Interpol Attention! Your computer has been blocked for safety reasons listed below. You are accused of viewing/storage and/or dissemination of banned pornography (child pornography/zoophilia/rape etc). You have violated World Declaration on non-proliferation of child pornography. You are accused of committing the crime envisaged by Article 161 of Kingdom of Great Britain criminal law. Article 161 of Kingdom of Great Britain criminal law provides for the punishment of deprivation of liberty for terms from 5 to 11 years. Also, you are suspected of violation of "Copyright and Related rights Law" (downloading of pirated music, video, warez) and of use use and/or dissemination of copyrighted content. Thus, you are suspected of violation of Article 148 of Kingdom of Great Britain Criminal Law. Article 148 of Kingdom of Great Britain criminal law provides for the punishment of deprivation of liberty for terms from 3 to 7 years or 150 to 550 basic amounts fine. It was from your computer, that unauthorized access had been stolen to information of State importance and to data closed for public Internet access. . <more fake legal threats> . The penalty set must be paid in course of 48 hours as of the breach. On expiration of the term, 48 hours that follow will be used for automatic collection of data on yourself and your misconduct, and criminal case will be opened against you. Amount of fine is £100. You can settle the fine with Ukash or PaySafeCard vouchers. As soon as the money arrives to the Treasury account, your computer will be unblocked in course of 24 hours. Then in 7 day term you should remedy the breaches associated with your computer. Otherwise your computer will be blocked up again and criminal case will be opened against yourself (with no option to pay fine).

Message

Serios Organised Crime Agency (Soca)
British Metropolitan Police
Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheshire Constabulary
Interpol
Attention!
Your computer has been blocked for safety reasons listed below.
You are accused of viewing/storage and/or dissemination of banned pornography (child pornography/zoophilia/rape etc). You have violated World Declaration on non-proliferation of child pornography. You are accused of committing the crime envisaged by Article 161 of Kingdom of Great Britain criminal law.
Article 161 of Kingdom of Great Britain criminal law provides for the punishment of deprivation of liberty for terms from 5 to 11 years.
Also, you are suspected of violation of "Copyright and Related rights Law" (downloading of pirated music, video, warez) and of use use and/or dissemination of copyrighted content. Thus, you are suspected of violation of Article 148 of Kingdom of Great Britain Criminal Law.
Article 148 of Kingdom of Great Britain criminal law provides for the punishment of deprivation of liberty for terms from 3 to 7 years or 150 to 550 basic amounts fine.
It was from your computer, that unauthorized access had been stolen to information of State importance and to data closed for public Internet access.
.
<more fake legal threats>
.
The penalty set must be paid in course of 48 hours as of the breach. On expiration of the term, 48 hours that follow will be used for automatic collection of data on yourself and your misconduct, and criminal case will be opened against you.
Amount of fine is £100. You can settle the fine with Ukash or PaySafeCard vouchers.
As soon as the money arrives to the Treasury account, your computer will be unblocked in course of 24 hours.
Then in 7 day term you should remedy the breaches associated with your computer. Otherwise your computer will be blocked up again and criminal case will be opened against yourself (with no option to pay fine).