@handnutaschnitte@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 days agoAkira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryptionwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1216arrow-down11
arrow-up1215arrow-down1external-linkAkira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryptionwww.tomshardware.com@handnutaschnitte@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 days agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-square@FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglish52•3 days agoGood thing when my main rig goes down I have a, checks notes, 16 RTX 4090 BACKUP MACHINE.
minus-square@KingRandomGuy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish21•3 days 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@surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish21•3 days agoJust build a new one, at the cost of… Nevermind, pay the ransom.
minus-square@glitch1985@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-23 days 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.
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.
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.