From Thanos to Prometheus: When Ransomware Encryption Goes Wrong
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IBM Security X-Force researchers have recently reverse-engineered Prometheus ransomware samples as part of ongoing incident response operations. X-Force has found that samples that infected organizational networks featured flawed encryption. This allowed our team to develop a fast-acting decryptor and help customers recover from the attack without a decryption key. While rare, ransomware developers can make […]
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From Thanos to Prometheus: When Ransomware Encryption Goes Wrong
A weakness was recently uncovered in the key generation algorithm used in the ransomware Prometheus's encryption process. Dig into the latest research from IBM Security X-Force.
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