Criminal case after virus- extortioner

On the commission of the General Procurator's office of the Russian Federation the procuratorship Moscow organized conducting checking on the facts of swindle via propagation in the network the Internet the harmful programs, which block the normal operation of computers. In the course of this checking the disturbances of law, which became base for the criminal complaint, were revealed.

It is established that some firms, which render services in the field of connection and Internet access, created the harmful programs Of winlock, which placed on the resources controlled by them. After the visit of the infected resource by users, the swindlers obtained access to information, which is contained on their personal computers, which were blocked. For the purpose of [zavladeniya] by the cash resources of users the criminals used short SMS of number, including number 1350, proposing for the money reward to report the code of the unlocking of computer.

Only after April 2010 as a result indicated illegal activity was extracted income in size more than 790 thousand rubles. According to the results of checking main investigation administration with [GUVD] for Moscow excited criminal case for h. of 3 st. 159 (swindle) and h. of 1 st. 273 (creation, use and the propagation of harmful programs for THE COMPUTER(S)) [UK] RF. The motion of the investigation of criminal case is controlled by the procuratorship Moscow.