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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42319193

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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[–] chloroken@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Corporations pay ransoms constantly. Weekly, maybe daily. And they largely get their files back. I don't believe you have any knowledge of companies handling ransomware.