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      16 hours ago

      In fairness if you really needed to you could rent this kind of compute via a service like vast.ai, it’d probably still be cheaper than paying a ransom.

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      You don’t need a whole new system just another clean hard drive to boot from and use the 16x RTX 4090 to calculate the code. EZPZ.

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    14 hours ago

    Not sure if they have this specific GPU or not, but I know AWS has on-demand instances with GPUs (and other cloud providers like Google likely do as well). It’s probably just a matter of time before somebody deploys self-service images so a business that got hit by this ransomware could quickly recover on their own.

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    21 hours ago

    The freshest Akira variant uses old-timey encryption method vulnerable to brute-force methods

    It breaks old-timey encryption.

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      It’s nice to know that 4090s won’t break new timey encryption in that amount of time.

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      19 hours ago

      I know you meant backups can protect against ransomware, but it would be pretty funny if ZFS included a ransomware password cracker

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        Depending on the depth of the ransomware a simple “zfs rollback” will fix all your problems.