Yahoo

New ransomware holds your files hostage until you play ‘PUBG’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As our ability to keep private data safe and secure online continues to be tested day in and day out, be it political data firms ...
SlashGear

PUBG Ransomware Makes You Play PUBG To Decrypt Hostaged Files

Everyone wants to ride the PUBG train. Short for PlayerUnknown's Battleground, the battle royale game is like that popular kid in school that everyone wants to be or, at the very least, be with. That ...
Game Rant

New Malware Forces Users to Play PUBG To Unlock Their Files

In what seems to be a joke, a new ransomware has been discovered that will lock a user's files until they play PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, or, even more simply, just enter a code into a field. As ...
PCGamesN

New ransomware locks your files unless you play three seconds of PUBG

Ransomware is a particularly nasty form of malware that encrypts your files and demands some kind of fee in order to decrypt them. Normally that fee is measured in dollars, but a new program demands ...
Kotaku

There’s A New Malware That Locks Your Files Unless You Play PUBG

A new malware locks infected computers’ files unless they fire up PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Unlike other ransomware, PUBG Ransomware doesn’t want infected users’ money; it just wants them to ...