Fortnite Ransomware Masquerades as an Aimbot Game Hack

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Attackers are taking aim at Fortnite’s global community of 250 million gamers.
 
A ransomware that calls itself “Syrk” is targeting gaming juggernaut Fortnite’s enormous user base, purporting to be a game hack tool.
 
Syrk promises players an “aimbot” for aiming more accurately while playing, and “ESP,” for discovering other player’s locations in the game. What it really gives them is a headache of a computer infection that locks up their machines and demands a ransom. If left unpaid, Syrk will delete batches of files every two hours.
 
According to an analysis on Tuesday by researchers at Cyren, Syrk ransomware is actually the Hidden-Cry ransomware that’s been given a .Syrk extension.

Read more here: https://threatpost.com/fortnite-ransomwa...ck/147549/