http://www.pcworld.com/article/2896272/new-ransomware-program-targets-gamers.html
>even developer tools like RPG Maker, UE4 and Unity3D are targeted.
Thoughts /g/?
Have you told /v/ yet?
>>46994884
/v/ is so much cancer, I dare not enter.
What I find interesting more is them targeting devtools. More valuables than game saves are projects that could or not be worth millions in revenue.
>Downloading suspicious or malicious software
>At all
Tip top fucking kek!
They brought this upon themselves.
>>46989329
>gamers
Nobody cares, gb2 >>>/v/ and play candy crush or whatever the fuck you people do
who cares, install/download the game again.
Just reinstall the game.
>>46994884
So the consolebabies can shitpost some more and then the kids with $400 dells can start spouting master race as they play their shitty ass terrible indie games?
Ew.
>>46996539
>>46996552
It targets things that have nothing to do with the initial install of the game. Like save files,mods, etc.
Read the fucking article before you comment.
>>46996756
OH NO, NOT THE SAVE FILES!!!!!!!!!!!
>>46996781
>Some wastoid faggot spends 3000 hours playing skyrim and becoming a god within the world
>virus comes and demands bitcoins for him to continue something he spent 3000 hours of his pathetic life on
Yeah that's gonna piss a lot of people off.
>>46996795
I will assist that mentality with the knowledge I have gotten from playing MMO's while not coding,
GIT
GUD
>>46996824
Being good really has nothing to do with time spent playing for a lot of games.
GG is more for games that only are PvP with no buildup or loss. As in assfaggots,fps or strategy.
>>46996850
Git gud as in, git gud and stop installing malware/suspicious shit from torrent websites/forums.
If you get a malware that locks you out of your shit, literally git gud because if you would have been gud you wouldn't have downloaded that shit in the first place.
I guess the correct term in this case would be "get smart" or "git less retarded"
until SDL2 is suddenly malicious I will be fine.
>12 year old nerd and his friends spend most of a year building a zuper kool minecraft world that they post to a super cringy youtube channel
>minecraft world gets cryptolocked when one of them visits 136.77.92.223/tailorswiftnudes/porn.exe
>rich parents pay up to get their kids to stop sperging out over video games
Shit, why didn't I think of this???
>>46996894
Sorry i just had a hard time reading your initial post I guess.
Yeah getting gud at not being an idiot downloading shit should be the first thing anyone does on a computer before they are allowed to use one on their own.
>>46996933
I mean you still could....
I think it's a good way to target OS-illiterates that have enough to lose to not want to reformat. The manchildren are probably more likely to spend what incomes they manage to have on useless shit too.
>tfw you lose your save game files
This is stupid. Buy programs instead of downloading shittt cracks and you'll be fine
>>46996968
>steal malware code & claim it as your own
>give it a nice shiny GUI and make it more "user friendly"
>charge victims 20% more than equivalent competing malware because "high quality experience" and it "just works"
Brb, becoming apple malware equivalent
>>46994803
Dude, just use SavegameCloud.. is this really the technology board?
>>46997462
link?
>>46996795
>implying anyone playing Skyrim for that long is actually playing and not pleasuring himself to horse fucking mods
Thoughts?
Yet another ransomware, except this one doesn't target anything truly valuable.
And those it does target, just teaches kids a valuable lesson, that they should actually learn how to use their computer and educate themselves before they download "xXxĂberHaxorxxX.exe" off "hackingDota2&LoL.com"
>>46997462
>SavegameCloud
>Cloud
Are you sure YOU are on the right board?
doesn't steam save everything in da cloud?
>>46997462
No one here really gives a ass about games only /v/ which come here for tech support and amd vs Intel threads do
>>46994803
So some dumb cunts are gonna lose their custom textures and ebin gmod saves because they click on fucking popups
The gene pool always needs more chlorine when the average joe is shitting in the pool and drinking the water.
>>46997720
No, a multi-million dollar company is going to get their source codes encrypted
>>46994960
It's really cool this, very interesting on why they specifically chose these targets.
>>46994803
>ransomware
It's called candy crush.
>>46997730
>a multi-million dollar company, stupid enough to hire retards and not setup adequate security or backup systems is going to get their source codes encrypted
Let's hope it's EA
>>46994803
No probrem. I follow Jesus, and Gaben saves me as well.
>>46997560
>not anything valuable
It targets devtools, did you even read?
>>46998330
Agreed.
>>46994803
Gee I don't know OP how about NOT VISITING WORDPRESS SITES, fucking hell is it that difficult to not click them?
>Not backing up your saves and user content
I keep an encrypted external HDD for this. All I'd have to do is reformat and copy my files from back-ups.
I don't keep the external HDD connected 24/7, so it's not like it would be affected.
>>46999522
Oh hello, anon. I see you were thinking that OP had this happen? Nah, man. I'm not a retarded computer user.
>>46999588
Have they identified the wordpress site affected yet?
>>46994803
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>46999619
I believe there is more than one.. Not too sure, do not of any known infected sites at this point
>>46998330
It's not like they're a bank or anything. Things like these happen. You're just not likely to hear them.
The most evil viruses do their job over a long period, affecting your backups as well. Good luck with those.
>>46999673
So the people writing the ransomware are in it for the long run?
You really think they're going to wait long enough to do things subtly?
Even if they did, I bet it would all happen must faster than they expected just like in Office Space.
OP here, interesting read. It even checks for VM's and runs an uninst(?)
>http://labs.bromium.com/2015/03/12/achievement-locked-new-crypto-ransomware-pwns-video-gamers/
Is rpgmaker considered a developer tool?
>>46999728
>Bromium vSentry
Snake oil or does it actually work?
>>46999728
And what does it do with the VM? break out/in?
>>46994803
who the shit cares
>unity, and rpg maker and probably other giant pieces of shit are being targeted
do you expect me to feel bad about those shitty paint programs being targeted? anyone who uses them deserves to have their shit wrecked anyway... not that they didn't already for being stupid enough to download malware
>>46996795
>not backing up your save files locally or on steam servers
people do that?
>>46996850
I hope by abbreviating git gud as GG you're not trying to equate it to "good game" which people say at the end of pvp matches
if so I'm glad I don't do multiplayer gaymen anymore
>>47000025
by the definition of vm it couldn't do anything to break out or else someone has massively fucked up along the lines
the only reason vm is mentioned is that if it is a vm there's an easy exploit they can use to infect windows vm's
>>47000297
>by the definition of vm it couldn't do anything to break out or else someone has massively fucked up along the lines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine_escape
It's an actual thing.
>tfw you have bromium on your machine, so it doesn't fucking matter because all the cryptoshit gets microVMed and runs in a sandbox, thus not doing shit.
Eat shit faggots.
>>46999955
it works, but it's still in beta, I've been testing it at work for like 3 months now. It's a really cool concept.
>tfw the virus is installed in to the root of the computer and no amount of reformating will solve it
We're FUCKED guys
>>47001798
Oh no you might have to fork out $80 for a hard drive, ARGGGHHHHHH.
>>47002598
Afected gaems:
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Who would still play that apart from us /v/ and /vg/?
>>46994803
Games are for children. Pls go back to >>>/v/
this probably isn't 100% since RPG maker was never technically free (just translated and distrubuted as such to all the known world since 2000)
but those are all free game dev engines right?
its like you can almost see who wrote the code...(being non free engines.) thats my guess anyway, weird fucking vibes over here.
>>47001798
What? Please be trolling, DBAN the drive and install a new OS.
