PUBG Ransomware Decrypts Your Files If You Play PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

An anonymous reader quotes Bleeping Computer: 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... 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.
Users can unlock it either by entering a secret unlock code displayed on the screen -- or by playing PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. The ransomware checks to see if you played PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds by monitoring the running processes for one named "TslGame"... Once a user plays the game and the process is detected, the ransomware will automatically decrypt the victim's files. This ransomware is not too advanced as it only looks for the process name and does not check for other information to confirm that the game is actually being played. That means you can simply run any executable called TslGame.exe and it will decrypt the files.

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[mnemotronic]

I would have to say this is a suspicious thread of AC replies.

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[f3rret]

The amount of work people will put into complete idiocy never ceases to amaze.

Wrong target

[Locke2005]

How about some ransomware that encrypts all my porn files until I finish doing my taxes?

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[PPH]

What if you get audited some days later.

It usually takes a lot more than a few days for the IRS to initiate an audit. Most predators lull their prey into a sense of complacency before they pounce.

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[umghhh]

I feel sorry for Skripals but you can get to feel powers of any state if you tease them too much and he did tease some mighty people. What we do not know of course is who he teased besides FSB and Russian generals.
Who we are to believe? These days we not only only have Russian but all media channels seem to have deteriorated into some form of propaganda. I admit I did not think this trough when communism ended for me but I kind of implicitly expected no propaganda. That was silly.

SAW 19

[goombah99]

I think they stole the plot from Saw 19. Isn't that the one where Saw encrypts 2 people's files and offers to decrypt them for the first one to saw off their pinky?

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[NicknameUnavailable]

it attacts the worst people ever.

That's literally every game, it's only since the numale-filled-raging-femenist-generation-of-zealous-millenial-idiots went through college that people seem to think that's some new thing (or took anything seriously anyway.)

Guaranteed

[fred911]

90% of those infected will wonder how they got "hacked" and probably the same percentage won't change their behavior or implement any protective process. Next time they'll pay or loose data and still be just as clueless.

Tyler Barriss does ransomware

[mnemotronic]

This ransomware is not too advanced as it only looks for the process name ...

That swat kiddie has release his primo ransomware.

I think I can see the flaw in this sentence

[Anonymous Coward]

"a secret unlock code displayed on the screen"

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[natwarappsmartz]

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[SharpFang]

Shit. And to think I was using it... Uninstalling now.