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Vibe-Coded 'Sicarii' Ransomware Can't Be Decrypted (www.darkreading.com)
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Regarding Sicarii's broken decryption process, researchers said that "during execution, the malware regenerates a new RSA key pair locally, uses the newly generated key material for encryption, and then discards the private key."

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[-] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

-u would give you the space back.
The ransomware doesn't. There is a block of data, sitting there, taunting you.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

ehehehehe thanks for that mental image

Of course, one can always reclaim that space if the data truly is inaccessible. Makes me want to write a joke program for "cleaning up" after ransomware that just removes the data from the partition table (or whatever the equivalent for files is - would that just be rm?)

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