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You missed this quote under the picture: "University IT workers tried to crack the ransomware for more than a week before the payment". BTW, are you implying t
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You missed this quote under the picture: "University IT workers tried to crack the ransomware for more than a week before the payment".
BTW, are you implying that a strong CS university can break asymmetric encryption? Why is everybody assuming that hackers are stupid all the time, and only they are smart...
- oolongCat 10y agoActually I am implying it is possible for some types of ransomware. Here's an example. https://github.com/leo-stone/hack-petya https://github.com/leo-stone/hack-petya (the hn thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11474613 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11474613 )
- ewams 10y agoRSA has some tools to assist with decryption from a few ransomware flavors. I would assume a few of the other big security firms do as well. We did this for a hospital that got hacked. It is not 100% successful and depends on the variant but is possible.