Ransomware Asks You To Play ‘PUBG’ To Decrypt Your Files

Tom's Hardware
Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm7 pts
The MalwareHunterTeam shared on Twitter its findings of a ransomware that asks its victim to fire up the popular battle royale game "Playerunknown's Battlegrounds" (PUBG) in order to decrypt their files.

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