It's not often we talk about brute force as a good thing in the computer space. Usually it's in reference to hackers demanding money, or even worse, that game for the original Xbox. This time the practice of bombarding a system with digits hoping to find the right ones has worked for the good guys, with Akira ransomware being cracked in just seven days by a lone RTX 4090.
Tom's Hardware spotted the work by Tinyhack, who's responsible for the exploit. The blogger has detailed the adventure which included helping a company restore data after the attack with brute forcing methods. It's pretty incredible to see this kind of work being carried out on a consumer, if quite high-end graphicscard.
