Has your PC been hacked by the “FBI”? Infections by a virus known as Reveton are on the rise. Once on a victim’s PC, the malware displays a fake message from the “FBI” claiming that you’ve been caught doing illegal online activities, and demands that you pay a fine. <\/p>\n
Of course, the message is fake, but the moneymaking scam behind it isn’t. Learn more on the Geek Squad Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Has your PC been hacked by the “FBI”? Infections by a virus known as Reveton are on the rise. Once on a victim’s PC, the malware displays a fake message from the “FBI” claiming that you’ve been caught doing illegal online activities, and demands that you pay a fine. Of course, the message is fake, … Continue reading “Fake “FBI” Malware Out to Scam Real Money”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[68,42,141,282,449,334],"class_list":["post-2532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-geek-squad","tag-internet","tag-malware","tag-technology","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}