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‘Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale’ Ransomware

Posted: July 31, 2013

Threat Metric

Ranking: 1,624
Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 223,256
First Seen: July 31, 2013
Last Seen: March 9, 2025
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware is a Police Ransomware Trojan cloned from related malware for other countries, with its pop-up alert redesigned for Romania. With a legal alert that accuses your computer of conducting illegal activities to back up its ransom demands, the 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware attempts to profit off of random victims – but doesn't have any legal authority or even the crime-detecting functions that would support its pop-up message. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers recommend treating the 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware as a threat to your PC's security and removing the 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware as soon as possible, although you usually will need to take a few additional steps to work around the Windows lockdown that usually accompanies its attacks.

'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware: Acronym Misuse with Criminal Intent

The 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware is recognizable for its fake police warning, a simple pop-up window that's designed to block your Windows desktop and refuse to close (accomplished partially by removing the pop-up's default border and window controls). This warning message, set to display when Windows restarts, claims that your computer has been used for copyright infringement and other crimes that warrant a ransom fee transferred through either Ukash or Paysafecard. However, SpywareRemove.com malware experts can confirm that the 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware isn't linked to Romania's SIAS and will not unlock your computer even if you do make the misjudgment of paying its illegal ransom.

The 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware's attacks usually are caused by infections resulting from your PC's exposure to malicious or compromised websites that host exploit kits like the Blackhole Exploit Kit. In some cases, other Trojans also may be used to install the 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware, which doesn't have any self-distributing features.

SpywareRemove.com malware experts also feel it relevant that to note that, even though the 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware uses a fake alert that's specific to Romania, other members of its family are specialized for other regions of the world. Some of the many examples of the 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware's multi-ethnic fellow Police Ransomware Trojans include the 'Ministry of Public Safety Canada' Ransomware, the 'Dansk Rigspolitiet' Ransomware, the 'Arma dei Carabinieri' Ransomware, the 'Svensk National Bureau of Investigation' Ransomware, the 'Nemzeti Nyomozó Iroda' Ransomware, the 'FEDPOL BundesKriminalPolizei' Ransomware, the 'Služba Kriminální Policie a Vyšetřování' Ransomware, the 'Unité Spéciale de la Police' Ransomware, the 'Police Judiciaire Fédérale' Ransomware and the 'Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police' Virus.

The Only Intervention Your Computer Needs to Save Itself from 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware

The most pertinent problem when dealing with a 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware infection is its tendency to block you from using other applications or the Windows interface in general. You can solve this issue, not by paying the 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware's ransom, but by finding an easy way to boot your computer without the 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware launching. SpywareRemove.com malware experts generally find good results from booting through a flash drive or similar device, and also encourage the use of Safe Mode, the Command Prompt and related security features. With the 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware disabled through any or all of these means, your anti-malware software should be able to remove the 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware without any problems.

Anti-malware software also can be helpful for blocking the drive-by-downloads and other browser attacks that install fake Police Trojans like the 'Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale' Ransomware. Other defenses worth mentioning include installing security patches regularly, disabling exploitable features like Java and avoiding links to sites with poor reputations.

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