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

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• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The freshest Akira variant uses old-timey encryption method vulnerable to brute-force methods

  It breaks old-timey encryption.

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  • nul9o9@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s nice to know that 4090s won’t break new timey encryption in that amount of time.

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• Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In other news ZFS and proper back ups do this in about 30 seconds.

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  • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I know you meant backups can protect against ransomware, but it would be pretty funny if ZFS included a ransomware password cracker

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    • Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Depending on the depth of the ransomware a simple “zfs rollback” will fix all your problems.

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    30? What? Holy moly!

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• notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Does this mean that 1 RTX4090 can do it in a week?:)

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• IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not sure if they have this specific GPU or not, but I know AWS has on-demand instances with GPUs (and other cloud providers like Google likely do as well). It’s probably just a matter of time before somebody deploys self-service images so a business that got hit by this ransomware could quickly recover on their own.

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• villainy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So stick to wibbly wobbly, timey wimey encryption? Got it.

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