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You missed this quote under the picture: "University IT workers tried to crack the ransomware for more than a week before the payment".

BTW, are you implying that a strong CS university can break asymmetric encryption? Why is everybody assuming that hackers are stupid all the time, and only they are smart...

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Actually I am implying it is possible for some types of ransomware. Here's an example.

https://github.com/leo-stone/hack-petya

(the hn thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11474613 )

RSA has some tools to assist with decryption from a few ransomware flavors. I would assume a few of the other big security firms do as well. We did this for a hospital that got hacked. It is not 100% successful and depends on the variant but is possible.

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