This ransomware wants you to play, not payUnlike its much more malicious counterparts, this ransomware has a rather benign demand. It also provides two curious ways of recovering one’s files. ESET Senior Research Fellow David Harley notes, however, "While this program has been referred to as ‘what could only be a joke’, it’s not really that funny. For a start, messing with a victim's data might conceivably go horribly wrong in some circumstances - it doesn't sound to be an impeccably well-coded program - we saw this time and time again in the heyday of the virus, where malware written by hobbyist virus writers had some (presumably) unintended but unfortunate effect. In any case, seeing a message like this could cause a victim serious concern, if they didn’t understand exactly what was going on.
Even more important, this still looks to me like activity that would be regarded in principle as criminal in most jurisdictions, since it involves unauthorized access and modification. The fact that it probably wasn’t meant to be malicious doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be taken seriously. The next such ‘joke’ might turn out to be even less humorous"
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This ransomware wants you to play, not pay
