schmidtbag:

But how does anyone go about getting it?

The same way you get any other virus.

RealNC:

The same way you get any other virus.

Except in the part of my quote you snipped out, I said it doesn't make sense how you'd get this like any other virus. The way the message is phrased seems to imply that it knows you own the game.

schmidtbag:

Except in the part of my quote you snipped out, I said it doesn't make sense how you'd get this like any other virus. The way the message is phrased seems to imply that it knows you own the game.

In the article it says it doesn't know that. Also I'm not sure what it is you're trying to say :-/ If I write a virus that says "hug your grandma or you'll lose all your files", are you going to call the police and sue your grandma?

RealNC:

In the article it says it doesn't know that.

No, it doesn't... the article doesn't mention anything about how you get it, or what triggers it for that matter.

Also I'm not sure what it is you're trying to say :-/ If I write a virus that says "hug your grandma or you'll lose all your files", are you going to call the police and sue your grandma?

What? You are jumping to really far ahead conclusions here, that frankly don't really make sense. Your analogy doesn't work, because there's another party missing: There's a product, the company that makes the product, and someone who is exploiting the product. The company is the one who has to address the issue, but in your analogy, who is the company? Think of the following scenarios: A. Let's say you get the virus from the game itself. Fighting the malware devs is a stupid priority, because they're never going to rest until they can't get through. This is where prioritizing security is important B. Let's say you get the virus from clicking on some weird ad from a porn site. Since when has there ever been ransomware that needs you to run a relatively obscure piece of non-free commercial software? That totally defeats the purpose of the virus. People are held for ransom to complete an objective; it is wholly within the ransom-creator's interest that the demands are met, or else they just wasted their time. When a robber holds a person for ransom at a bank, they don't want to kill the person, they want the money. If the demands aren't met, they failed their objective. That being said, considering how non-malicious this ransomware is, why would these devs create something that is so oddly specific to one game? Anyone who doesn't own the game and doesn't know how to use the decryption key would be seriously screwed over.

schmidtbag:

No, it doesn't..

"the ransomware also checks to see if your playing PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds by monitoring the running processes for one named "TslGame"" It says it only checks the process name. It doesn't know nor check whether or not you actually have the game or not. As for the rest of what you said, you make zero sense. Someone made a joke virus. It got in the wild. End of story. Viruses like this were the norm decades ago. It's nothing new. There's no "why." You'd have to ask the person who wrote the virus. Suggesting PUBG has got anything to do with this is, frankly, batshit insane.

RealNC:

"the ransomware also checks to see if your playing PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds by monitoring the running processes for one named "TslGame""

Yes, that's a step after what we're talking about here. This is when you already have the ransomwhere; it doesn't explain how you got it in the first place. How you got it is the subject at hand here.

As for the rest of what you said, you make zero sense. Someone made a joke virus. It got in the wild. End of story. Viruses like this were the norm decades ago. It's nothing new. There's no "why." You'd have to ask the person who wrote the virus. Suggesting PUBG has got anything to do with this is, frankly, batshit insane.

Seeing as my posts have had multiple upvotes, I'm pretty sure I've stated my point plenty clearly in a way that others understood.