FortniteVBucksHack Ransomware

The FortniteVBucksHack Ransomware is a fake file-locking Trojan that imitates the payloads of these threats with pop-ups and changing your desktop's wallpaper. Although current samples exhibit no data-corrupting or encrypting capabilities, new releases may provide additional attack features to this threat. Assume that this program is a threat to your PC's files and have an appropriate anti-malware product uninstall the FortniteVBucksHack Ransomware whenever possible.

The Hacking Software that's Worth Exactly What You Paid for It

A pretend file-locker Trojan is using the disguise of a hacker software for catching new victims and scaring them into paying ransoms. Importantly, the FortniteVBucksHack Ransomware isn't part of families like Hidden Tear or the Crysis Ransomware, and doesn't encrypt your media – or deliver any of the other attacks that it claims in its warning messages. In its current state, malware experts rank the FortniteVBucksHack Ransomware as being threatening only due to the potential its ransoming instructions have for tricking users into paying money over nothing.

The FortniteVBucksHack Ransomware is one of the few threats of its kind that uses the Basic programming language and is compatible with a variety of Windows environments. The installer's distribution uses the misleading filename of 'FortniteVBucksHack,' referencing the currency of a multiplayer shooter video game, which the threat actors also are using for their ransoming infrastructure and accompanying website. Naturally, installing and running the FortniteVBucksHack Ransomware doesn't provide any features, beneficial or negative, regarding Epic Games' Fortnite.

What the FortniteVBucksHack Ransomware does include in its payload is a simple, application-based pop-up, and the hijacking of your Windows wallpaper. Both the wallpaper and the pop-up window show ransoming demands that include false claims regarding the FortniteVBucksHack Ransomware's monitoring your computer supposedly, encrypting its media files, and blocking other programs (such as Notepad, Windows Explorer, and the Epic Games Launcher). While the FortniteVBucksHack Ransomware, like the Jigsaw Ransomware, also warns the user against closing it, malware experts observe no additional hazards that would trigger for any users trying to do so.

Consequences in the Lives of Would-Be 'Hackers'

Besides its missing many of the traditional features of file-locker Trojans, as well as having low-level programming, the FortniteVBucksHack Ransomware further emphasizes its author's inexperience in its ransoming messages. The pop-up asks for an equivalent of over seven thousand USD in Bitcoins, which makes it expensive even by the standards of real file-locker Trojans like the Globe Ransomware RaaS family. Users also should have no problems verifying that their files and applications are in working order, since the FortniteVBucksHack Ransomware, currently, does nothing to impede their opening.

However, Trojans that come out without any data-attacking features like encryption sometimes will acquire updates that remedy their weakness. Backing up files to external, secure devices can provide enhanced safety from file-locker Trojans, as a rule. Malware experts also discourage downloading illicit content, such as game-cheating software from torrents and unsafe websites that are likely of being compromised especially. Some anti-malware programs are just beginning to detect and remove the FortniteVBucksHack Ransomware as a threat, albeit heuristically (as a generic Trojan).

The FortniteVBucksHack Ransomware's tactic is poetic: it takes advantage of wannabe cheaters seeking free currency and tries to take money from them, in turn. Fortnite players will be fortunate if that, and fake pop-ups, are all that the FortniteVBucksHack Ransomware ever can do.