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Guru3D.com » News » PUBG Ransomware is a real thing

PUBG Ransomware is a real thing

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/13/2018 08:02 AM | source: | 26 comment(s)
PUBG Ransomware is a real thing

Ehm no, it's not a belated April Fool's Day joke, this actually looks to be a real thing. This PUBG Ransomware does not go in search of your hard earned cash, but rather will decrypt your hijacked files if you play PUBG for an hour (actually you just have the run an executable for 3 seconds).

It does however just give you the key to decrypt as well if an hour's worth of PUBG is not your thing. 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. 

PUBG Ransomware
Your files, images, musics, documents are Encrypted!

Your files is encrypted by PUBG Ransomware!
but don't worry! It is not hard to unlock it.
I don't want money!
Just play PUBG 1Hours!

Or Restore is [ s2acxx56a2sae5fjh5k2gb5s2e ]

As stated in the ransom instructions, the first method that can be used to decrypt the files is to simply enter the "s2acxx56a2sae5fjh5k2gb5s2e" code into the program and click the Restore button. 

If you want to be fancy, though, the ransomware also checks to see if your playing PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds by monitoring the running processes for one named "TslGame" as shown below. Even though the ransom note states you need to run it for 1 hour, you only need to run the executable for 3 seconds. 

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 - via bleeping computers.



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Venix
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#5537727 Posted on: 04/14/2018 08:51 PM
Well this one is not really harmfull if anything a lott of people might get a bit more serius about their security if anything ...

allesclar
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#5537817 Posted on: 04/15/2018 11:40 AM
lolz

allesclar
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#5537975 Posted on: 04/16/2018 09:03 AM
They also try to shut down BR games left and right.

Pretty weak.

I think a massive, ironically, downfall for PUGB is the fact that they have not released it on PS4 and still keep it just for Xbox. I think that in the long run this will hurt them more as the fan base for Fortnite grows and grows.

Irenicus
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#5537979 Posted on: 04/16/2018 09:10 AM
I don't think they actually want to hurt anyone. They could just be trying to exemplify how seriously vulnerable the game's security is, in the hopes that the devs fix it. It's important to actually inconvenience the users, or else nobody is going to care enough to speak up. Think of it like malaria - despite how horrific and destructive it is, nobody cares about it until someone important to them has it.

It doesn't have anything to do with the game's security though? It's something you get outside the game..

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#5538081 Posted on: 04/16/2018 02:37 PM
It doesn't have anything to do with the game's security though? It's something you get outside the game..

But how does anyone go about getting it? It's not like this is something somebody would intentionally download. Seeing as it is specific to one game, it's not likely you'd accidentally get this from a website or torrent.

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