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.”

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      I bet other ransomware creators hate this. If victims can’t even get their data back by paying, more victims will stop paying across the board.

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    Like a virus that kills the host, it won’t spread as well and should die out faster than other types of maleware.

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      A hash is at least consistent when given identical inputs. What they created is more like a digital incinerator.