New Cryptolocker variant targets gamers - encrypts game files
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sverek
Another reason to love steamcloud.
Fox2232
Ransomware people have reached new lows...
Taking games from children.
Vtech
Game valorization, good reason to start all over again 🙂
fantaskarsef
That's when the not so techno-fit parents get in and pay the sum demanded. Could probably work as a criminal business plan.
Extraordinary
Well, the good guys eventually created a free site to decrypt Cryptolocker files, only a matter of time until they manage it again hopefully
TheDeeGee
Don't these ***holes have something better to do? Like go out and get some freakin sun?
Extraordinary
Id love to somehow trace these guys servers and encrypt them, like waiting for the parking clamp guys to park their van right next to your car to clamp your wheel, and go clamp their van while they're at it
stevevnicks
I have my whole system games and all imaged on external usb 3 HDD any issues I just disconnect from internet and reimage the system.
whole system back up and running with all games installed in around 1 1/2 hours so not to big of an issue game saves are imaged and backed up on cloud, not that I really game anymore, but better to be safe than ripped off.
scatman839
Oh no, not my game files, plz that's too far!
Or I could just start again or download someone elses save after deleting the encrypted game and downloading it again in half an hour.
CalculuS
This is pretty ineffective anyway, I would just nuke my OS installation and that'd be it.
undeadpolice
Meh. I would just restore my system from image file.
Still whoever is doing the ransom-ware deserved to be burn alive.
stevevnicks
ineffective? works for me
I have over 500gig in steam games imaged, much quicker than re downloading them again.
CalculuS
No I mean the whole virus thing. Just plugging the internet and nuking it. Small nuisance of half an hour maybe.
stevevnicks
ahh ok .. I thought you meant external image back up's
I also keep 2 older images just in case the new updated images become infected or corrupted.
Reardan
I'm curious how you guys do images.
Is it to an external drive? Cryptolocker will find that.
Another drive on your computer?
Mapped network folder or drive?
Cryptolocker is capable of finding all that stuff and it will encrypt it. And by the time you realize what's happened, any of those things connected to your computer will be encrypted too.
And anti-viruses typically don't detect it.
Extraordinary
Use something like Acronis True Image
And Cryptolocker variants can not encrypt something on a drive / media not connected to your machine / online - always save important backups offline
The Laughing Ma
Lol you guys did read the list of games affected though! Call Of Duty? Bioshock 2? Half Life 2? Assassin Creed? The only game on the entire list that may be getting any play time to make this thing worthwhile is possibly Minecraft, Oh no they have encrypted the files on a 10 year old game that I haven't played in 6 years I better get round to paying them to get them decrypted you know just in case I want to ever play that game that I stopped playing 6 years ago.
Let's face it this scam is directed at Minecraft users the fact that some other games are affected just happens to be a happy coincidence.
KissSh0t
This is actually pretty funny news when you think about it.
Barry J
I have image on external USB HDD only gets plugged in when I need to do a new backup or use the backup so unless the virus can walk it's not getting my image
tsunami231
I have had Flash set to ask to use for while now and wont go back flash is only saved auto start on hand full of sites.
Must people should get in the habit of this.
This crypto this start to get ridiculous though
