Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas supposedly had its source code leaked, but new information suggests it's fake and actually contains ransomware.
I shouldn't need to write this, but please don't download random files from strangers on the internet. According to Twitter user PliskinDev whose name and bio both state they're a developer, "It has been confirmed that GTA San Andreas’s source code is fake and contains ransomware." They share screenshots that supposedly show the files within the download for the source code, and the one labelled as San Andreas is only 17,857KB.
That's only a tiny bit bigger than my college dissertation which is only a few dozen text pages and some pictures, so there's no way that's a complete game.
It has been confirmed that GTA San Andreas’s source code is fake and contains ransomware pic.twitter.com/MtCGxiG8WYJanuary 6, 2025 Two of the much bigger files are around 3.5 and 1.5GB each, and they're both labelled as Rhysida files.
What is Rhysida, you ask? The US Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) warns that they're "a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that has emerged since May 2023.