Well, most often when you see a ransomware, you expect to pay some kind of a great price to get rid of it. In the case of the PUBG ransomware, that doesn’t seem to be the case. You see, this particular ransomware makes you play PUBG for an hour before they give you your stuff back, which is quite a strange set of requirements for a hacker to make. Nonetheless, if you want to have your music, documents, and images back, you have to do what they ask of you, even if you don’t like Battle Royal games.
As we found out when we were reading the Kotaku article about this, the MalwareHunterTeam discovered this malware first, which BleepingComputer reported on. Usually, when your computer gets affected by a software like this, you get a message that asks for some kind of ransom, which is usually money, a lot of money. But, that doesn’t seem to be the case with this strange PUBG ransomware. The creator of this software isn’t looking for money or anything like that, he just wants you to play PUBG for an hour. You don’t even have to play for an hour, which is the funny part, as you get an unlock code which unlocks all of your documents if you don’t want to play the game.
Even though this looks like more of a joke than an actual dangerous malware software, you can never know for sure. Maybe it has an even more dangerous malware lurking somewhere inside its code.
