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[–] notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Does this mean that 1 RTX4090 can do it in a week?:)

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Not sure if they have this specific GPU or not, but I know AWS has on-demand instances with GPUs (and other cloud providers like Google likely do as well). It’s probably just a matter of time before somebody deploys self-service images so a business that got hit by this ransomware could quickly recover on their own.

[–] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 30 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Good thing when my main rig goes down I have a, checks notes, 16 RTX 4090 BACKUP MACHINE.

[–] KingRandomGuy@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago

Just build a new one, at the cost of....

Nevermind, pay the ransom.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 38 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The freshest Akira variant uses old-timey encryption method vulnerable to brute-force methods

It breaks old-timey encryption.

[–] nul9o9@lemmy.world 19 points 9 hours ago

It's nice to know that 4090s won't break new timey encryption in that amount of time.

[–] Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 18 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

In other news ZFS and proper back ups do this in about 30 seconds.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 20 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I know you meant backups can protect against ransomware, but it would be pretty funny if ZFS included a ransomware password cracker

[–] Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 hours ago

Depending on the depth of the ransomware a simple "zfs rollback" will fix all your problems.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

30? What? Holy moly!

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

So stick to wibbly wobbly, timey wimey encryption? Got it.