14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this month, the Malta Police Force published an alert to warn users about a piece of ransomware that leveraged the organization’s name in order to make everything more legitimate-looking.
It’s well known that ransomware – the pieces of malware that lock up computers and demand a ransom to have them unlocked – often use the names of various law enforcement agencies to threaten victims. It appears the Malta Police Force is one of them.
“The Malta Police Force advises that no law enforcement agency, including the Malta Police Force, collects fines in this manner. Such computer messages claiming to be from the Malta Police Force are fraudulent. Users targeted by police ransomware should not pay any money,” the alert reads.
Users whose computers are infected with this Malta Police Force ransomware are advised to file a report providing as much information as they can, including a screenshot and details on how the computer might have been infected.