Comment on Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryption.

Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe for performance so as to decrease the chances of detection

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah that makes sense, I figured they’d just spin up a symmetric key, use it, send it home and delete it locally.

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can someone elaborate? I’m not as informed…

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Check my comment to flyswat.

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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why would they use a symmetric algorithm?

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Uncrackable.

    I mean big assymetrics are too, but it’s more complicated to use and much slower.

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