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Why were they targeting video games? Seems like you can just reinstall and that corporate or personal information would be much more valuable and high ransom.
by tgb 10y ago
Why were they targeting video games? Seems like you can just reinstall and that corporate or personal information would be much more valuable and high ransom.
- stingraycharles 10y agoThey were targeting savegames specifically.
- Laforet 10y agoas well as recorded replays
- ben_jones 10y agoLow hanging fruit. Gamers will download anything, game files are always in an easy to access location.
- rtpg 10y agoA lot of game pirating instructions involve "disable your antivirus"
- brobinson 10y agoSome game mods do, too, as they'll legitimately patch binaries either on disk or in memory through DLL injection.