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.”

  • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 hours ago

    -u would give you the space back.
    The ransomware doesn’t. There is a block of data, sitting there, taunting you.

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      8 hours ago

      ehehehehe thanks for that mental image

      Of course, one can always reclaim that space if the data truly is inaccessible. Makes me want to write a joke program for “cleaning up” after ransomware that just removes the data from the partition table (or whatever the equivalent for files is - would that just be rm?)