BKA Trojaner is a computer infection currently targeting German-speaking countries (Austria, Switzerland,Belgium, and Germany, of course). It is quite possible that other countries might be attacked by this virus as well. The program is classified as a ransomware because it completely locks the desktop of the infected PC and then asks users to pay the ransom (money to unlock the screen). Hackers have elaborated various designs of this computer locker and several mechanisms of how it attacks the PC and the consequences of the locked status. There are several ransomware families which might use the design of this BKA (BundesKriminalamt)…
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Ihr computer ist gesperrt is a fake warning supposedly coming from the German police (GVU). The peculiarity of this fake warning is that it occupies the entire area of the attacked PC. In fact, the whole desktop area of the targeted computer becomes blocked, and this is the very essence of the statement “Ihr computer ist gesperrt”. This is translated into English as “Your computer is blocked”. This particular fake GVU warning is categorized as a virus infection classified as ransomware. It is called “ransoware” because this is a virus program which plans to make users pay the ransom in…