Váš počítač byl uzamčen. Fake warning from Česká Republika Policie (Ústav Počítačové Trestné Činnosti)

Do you believe that your system has been locked by Česká Republika Policie? Please, do not make quick and poorly grounded resolutions yet. If you think your system has been blocked by Česká Republika Policie warning based on the information similar to the one depicted at the screenshot – then you may sigh with relief. This alert isn’t connected to Česká Republika Policie and Ústav Počítačové Trestné Činnosti. Instead, this is the virus that locks the desktop and asks for a ransom to be paid by you in order to unblock it. Such type of virus is often referred to in many security blogs and sites as ransomware, even though not so many PC users in the world realize what exactly this is. Ransomware is a special type of malware that blocks the desktop of the infected computer, asking for certain amount of money to be paid in favor of its developers in order to unlock the screen. Today ransomwares are becoming more and more widely spread in the cyber world, and it seems that they have replaced another type of malwares known as rogues (rogue antiviruses). Who knows the fate of these two types of infections in the future, but as per now we can see that ransomwares are gaining a good niche in the entire cyber malware attack.