handnutaschnitte@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoAkira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryptionwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-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 · 3 days agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squareFrostyTrichs@crazypeople.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoGood thing when my main rig goes down I have a, checks notes, 16 RTX 4090 BACKUP MACHINE.
minus-squareglitch1985@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·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.
minus-squareKingRandomGuy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 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-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoJust build a new one, at the cost of… Nevermind, pay the ransom.
Good thing when my main rig goes down I have a, checks notes, 16 RTX 4090 BACKUP MACHINE.
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.
Just build a new one, at the cost of…
Nevermind, pay the ransom.