Breaking Prometheus: When Ransomware Crypto Goes Wrong


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When ransomware hits, IR includes boots on the ground and forensic support. For a real attack, a researcher reverse-engineered the Prometheus ransomware and discovered weaknesses in the encryption implementation. Malware developers aren’t always crypto experts and weak implementations of algorithms can allow for the decryption of files. This session will share the research and the process of creating a rapid acting decryptor.

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Aaron Gdanski

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Malware Reverse Engineering Analyst, IBM Security

Anne Jobmann

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Malware Reverse Engineering Manager, IBM Security

Andy Piazza

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Global Head of Threat Intelligence, IBM

Hackers & Threats

cryptography incident response ransomware practitioner perspectives threat intelligence


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