I recently helped a company recover their data from the Akira ransomware without paying the ransom. I'm sharing how I did it, along with the full source code.
The code is here: https://github.com/yohanes/akira-bruteforce
To clarify, multiple ransomware variants have been named Akira over the y
Maybe for performance so as to decrease the chances of detection
Edit: sorry disregard my comment, I read that as “symmetric”.
In the case of asymmetric they can only deploy one part of the key which if intercepted cannot be used to decrypt.
Maybe for performance so as to decrease the chances of detection
Edit: sorry disregard my comment, I read that as “symmetric”. In the case of asymmetric they can only deploy one part of the key which if intercepted cannot be used to decrypt.
Yeah that makes sense, I figured they’d just spin up a symmetric key, use it, send it home and delete it locally.