Runescape gold safe from the new virus TeslaCrypt. It is said that a huge number of online game players had their game accounts held for ransom to be able to get an access to their account. One easy target to have a sure money for ransom are gamers. Gamers will do everything to an access on their game accounts again, than other regular people does.
TeslaCrypt didn’t targeted our runescape gold
We do feel bad that other games suffered from these hackers. We can say that the hacker is very clever for targeting gamers, especially these big games that has lots of hard core gamers in it. This computer virus only targets your gaming progress. This virus will look for your key files and encrypt them with keys that will only be given after you pay the ransom of £340 in Bitcoin.
There 40 games currently at risk, according to Researcher Vadim Kotov from security firm Bromium, including:
- Call of Duty
- Star Craft 2
- Diablo
- Fallout 3
- Minecraft
- Half-Life 2
- Dragon Age: Origins
- The Elder Scrolls and specifically Skyrim related files
- Star Wars: The Knights Of The Old Republic
- WarCraft 3
- E.A.R
- Saint Rows 2
- Metro 2033
- Assassin’s Creed
- T.A.L.K.E.R.
- Resident Evil 4
- Bioshock 2
Online Games
- World of Warcraft
- Day Z
- League of Legends
- World of Tanks
- Metin2
Company Specific Files
- Various EA Sports games
- Various Valve games
- Various Bethesda games
Gaming Software
- Steam
Game Development Software
- RPG Maker
- Unity3D
- Unreal Engine
Research said that the virus can be obtain from a wordpress blog that seemingly host the file that uses a loophole in flash to infect it visitors. One way to avoid this kind of incident is to avoid visiting unknown sites. In visiting such sites, not only you give away your IP address, you also put sensitive information to the host that your computer had stored.
Good thing that runescape was not targeted by this virus. But we can’t really say if our runescape gold are safe.