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This Ransomware Doesn’t Want Cash, It Just Wants You to Play a Japanese Video Game

April 7, 2017

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Do you want to play a game?

That’s the question posed by a novel piece of ransomware that challenges victims to achieve a high score in a video game instead of demanding cash to unlock files.

Yeah.

“Minamitsu ‘The Captain’ Murasa encrypted your precious data like documents, musics [sic], pictures, and some kinda project files,” a pop-up from the malware, called Resenware, reads.

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