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> why publish this?

New versions of Akira and any other ransomware are constantly being developed. This code is specific to a certain version of the malware.

As noted in the article, it also requires:

1. An extremely capable sysadmin 2. A bunch of GPU capacity 3. That the timestamps be brute-forced separately

So it's not exactly a turn-key defeat of Akira.



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