New Malware Holds Your PC Hostage Until You Play 'PUBG'

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New Malware Holds Your PC Hostage Until You Play 'PUBG'
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The PC world has a long and ignoble history of malware - noxious programming like spyware, infections and adware - yet the most recent disclosure from MalwareHunterTeam is out and out interesting. It scrambles a client's records until the point that they dispatch PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, a madly well known fight royale diversion all the more ordinarily known as PUBG. 

BleepingComputer reports that the "PUBG RansomWare" will attack your PC, encoding your work area records and additionally archive, music and photographs envelopes, likewise adding them with a ".PUBG" expansion. When it has finished this procedure, it will sprinkle a screen giving both of you approaches to defeat this issue: Play PUBG for 60 minutes, or just enter a reestablish code, which is really shown right in the message. 

The creator of this inquisitively conquerable ransomware states in the message: "Your records, pictures, musics, archives are Encrypted! Your documents is scrambled by PUBG Ransomware! in any case, don't stress! It isn't difficult to open it. I don't need cash! Simply play PUBG 1Hours!" 

As per BleepingComputer, you can just dispatch the diversion for all of 3 seconds, after which the greater part of your beforehand bolted documents will be unscrambled and carry on ordinarily. 

While this is unquestionably classified as pernicious in light of the fact that it changes your PC without your consent and actually holds it prisoner until the point when you do what it needs, it takes after all the more a joke than something hazardous. The writer is either an exhausted diehard evangelist of PUBG, or isn't knowledgeable in composing powerful ransomware. Or on the other hand both? 

What's not clear as of now is the manner by which a client gets tormented with this malware in any case (i.e. what locales or documents are spreading it), or if just gamers with PUBG introduced are influenced. In any case, hello, on the off chance that it transpires, breathe easy in light of the way that it's dead easy to evacuate. 

Individuals have totally an excess of extra time staring them in the face...
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