I’ve seen a lot of strange applications and joke viruses in my time, such as ones that make your keyboard sound like a typewriter or one that would shut down your system at noon for you to take a tea break; but this malware is just all kinds of WTF:
In what could only be a joke, a new ransomware has been discovered called “PUBG Ransomware” that will decrypt your files if you play the game called PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
Discovered by MalwareHunterTeam, when the PUBG Ransomware is launched it will encrypt a user’s files and folders on the user’s desktop and append the .PUBG extension to them. When it has finished encrypting the files, it will display a screen giving you two methods that you can use to decrypt the encrypted files.
You can either play PUBG for an hour (or just three seconds) or input a “restore code”. The malware doesn’t seem to be that advanced, as people have already found out that renaming any executable to TslGame.exe will also decrypt the users files. :v:
It’s unclear how this “ransomware” is circulating, but for the most part it seems rather harmless. :zorak: I wonder if this will be added to the malware museum. :trollface: