Regarding Sicarii's broken decryption process, researchers said that "during execution, the malware regenerates a new RSA key pair locally, uses the newly generated key material for encryption, and then discards the private key."

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[–] ElBarto@piefed.social 115 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ransomware that can't be decrypted is just destructive malware like any other.

[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 73 points 2 days ago

I bet other ransomware creators hate this. If victims can’t even get their data back by paying, more victims will stop paying across the board.