> why publish this? New versions of Akira and any other ransomware are constantly being developed. This code is specific to a certain version of the malware.

> why publish this? New versions of Akira and any other ransomware are constantly being developed. This code is specific to a certain version of the malware. As noted in the article, it also requires: 1. An extremely capable sysadmin 2. A bunch of GPU capacity 3. That the timestamps be brute-forced separately So it's not exactly a turn-key defeat of Akira.