A group called “Egregor” claims to have copied data from the servers of the French game developer Ubisoft and the German developer Crytek. She also completely encrypted the data on Crytek’s servers using ransomware also baptized Egregor.

This is what the group claimed to the IT News website ZDNet, which she apparently contacted. The attackers, on the other hand, do not want the data on Ubisoft’s servers to be encrypted as a more worthwhile target. According to ZDNet, Egregor has started to post the data on its own leak page in the Darknet.

New “Watch Dogs” allegedly completely copied As Egregor stated to ZDNet, the data copied from Ubisoft is said to be the complete, soon-to-be-released game “Watchdogs: Legion” and its engine. The group threatens to release the source code piece by piece unless Ubisoft contacts them. Their motives are still unclear; the intention to extort a ransom, however – as a typical motive for ransomware attacks – seems obvious. around 20 MByte Ubisoft and 300 MByte Crytek data. The data copied from Crytek is (probably actually stolen) data from the everyday work of the Crytek developers, which document the development process of various games and the old social gaming network GFACE. The alleged “Watch Dogs” content from Ubisoft, on the other hand, could not have been clearly assigned to the new game and could probably also have been an older Ubiso