handnutaschnitte@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoAkira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryptionwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down11
arrow-up120arrow-down1external-linkAkira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryptionwww.tomshardware.comhandnutaschnitte@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareFrostyTrichs@crazypeople.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoGood thing when my main rig goes down I have a, checks notes, 16 RTX 4090 BACKUP MACHINE.
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoJust build a new one, at the cost of… Nevermind, pay the ransom.
minus-squareglitch1985@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoYou 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.
minus-squareKingRandomGuy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoIn 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.
Good thing when my main rig goes down I have a, checks notes, 16 RTX 4090 BACKUP MACHINE.
Just build a new one, at the cost of…
Nevermind, pay the ransom.
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.
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.