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

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I wonder why they used an assymetric algo.

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  • Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Maybe for performance so as to decrease the chances of detection

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Can someone elaborate? I’m not as informed…

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Check my comment to flyswat.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Why would they use a symmetric algorithm?

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Uncrackable.

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

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