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Vibe-Coded 'Sicarii' Ransomware Can't Be Decrypted (www.darkreading.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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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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[–] 84 points 9 months ago

I bet other ransomware creators hate this. If victims can’t even get their data back by paying, more victims will stop paying across the board.

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