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So, if you're a victim and you don't want to pay ransom - hire an expert to find out the missing data (timestamp, is it the vulnerable version?, ...), then -
by Tepix 4y ago
So, if you're a victim and you don't want to pay ransom
- hire an expert to find out the missing data (timestamp, is it the vulnerable version?, ...), then
- rent a GPU server and keep the fingers crossed.
I've looked for cheap GPU servers yesterday, the cheapest i found was Ultrarender at 200€ per week for a Dual RTX 3080Ti remote workstation. Which is probably overkill, a single RTX 3080Ti can do it in 33 hours or so (assuming the "12 Nvidia GPUs" they mentioned in the article are of similar speed).
- MaxMatti 4y agoNot sure if you could run that on vast.ai but they do offer more granular pricing, so that might be the better option.
- msm_ 4y agoYes, that's the "almost" part of the blog post (and what makes it interesting, IMO). Not really something a regular person can do. Since CERT is not profit-driven, that kind of help was offered for governmental institutions for free (but it's hard, because government and companies need to recover ASAP and this kind of research and computation takes time). If you want success stories, the same organisation has also published decryptors for other ransomware families (Mapo, Crypromix, Flotera) and they were just broken in a straightforward way. Usually the vulnerability is not explained for successful decryptors, to make bad guys life a bit harder.
- semitones 4y agocoreweave.com has pretty cheap GPUs