@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 3 months agoAkira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryptionwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1219arrow-down11
arrow-up1218arrow-down1external-linkAkira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryptionwww.tomshardware.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 3 months agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish53•3 months agoGood thing when my main rig goes down I have a, checks notes, 16 RTX 4090 BACKUP MACHINE.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish21•3 months agoJust build a new one, at the cost of… Nevermind, pay the ransom.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish21•3 months 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-23 months 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.
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.
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.
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.