Cyren: Fortnite gamers are under attack by Syrk ransomware. The malware is disguised as a game hack. Cybercrime threatens to delete batches of files every two hours, if the user don’t pay, and the virtual base of profits is huge

Fortnite gamers are under attack by Syrk ransomware. The malware, disguising as a game hack tool. It has been discovered by Cyren cyber security experts. In fact, it promises players an “aimbot” for more accuracy and “ESP” for discovering other player’s locations in the game. But really it locks up the victim’s machine and ask for a ransom to unlock. Furthermore, the malicious code would delete batches of files every two hours, if the user don’t pay. The researchers believe that Syrk could be spread via an upload to a sharing site and the link posted in Fortnite users in forums. The code, built with tools available on Internet, has potentially a huge base of profits for cybercrime. According to the last report (March 2019) players of the game were 250 million worldwide.

The cyber security experts: Syrk ransomware is Hidden-Cry with a .Syrk extension. There are a couple of ways to recover free the encrypted data

According to the cyber security experts, Syrk ransomware is Hidden-Cry with a .Syrk extension. The source code for the original Fortnite malware is readily available, having been shared on Github at the end of last year. Furthemore, cybercrime plays with the sense of urgency created in the victims, by deleting files every two hours. However, Cyber believes it is possible for victims to recover deleted files, given the simple method used to delete the files. The company also provides instructions to victims on two methods for decrypting files without paying to receive a password. Probably, the best way too avoid the encryption is not try to cheat. But, in case gamers had fallen in to the trap, they could read the researchers post to recover their files free.