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

[Faybert]

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pubg-ransomware-decrypts-your-files-if-you-play-playerunknowns-battlegrounds/

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.

The first method that can be used 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 you played PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds by monitoring the running processes for one named "TslGame" as shown below.
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[SumTingWong]

I smell the lawsuit action class right here.

 

[Fel Grossi]

We can say that this guy must be a fanatic of this game.

 

[Bikasgaur]

Russia?

 

[upnorth]

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.

 

[Paul Lee]

I'd rather get my files encrypted, thanks

 

[tim one]

Yeah it seems a joke but this shows how arrogant are malcoders, a ransomware may steal money or imposing something against the will of the victim like in this case.
It is the mouse and cat game!