![]() The message includes an email address that the player must contact to discover how to make the payment. The unlucky player is then sent a threatening message demanding payment in return for a decryption password. When the file is executed, the ransomware beast awakens and starts encrypting images, videos, music and documents stored on the player's computer. Players who download Syrk in the misguided belief that they've stumbled across a sneaky way to up their game end up with a 12MB executable file. Roughly 250 million players of the online video game were targeted by the ransomware, which has the filename "SydneyFortniteHacks.exe" and is known as Syrk. Research conducted by cloud security specialists Cyren has found that a cheat tool claiming to improve the accuracy of a player's aim (known as an aimbot) is in reality a piece of malware designed to cause data loss. ![]() In an Aesop's fable for the digital age, Fortnite players who try to cheat are themselves being duped by ransomware disguised as a game hack. ![]()
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