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.”


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.