i've finished my ransomware. just the basic stuff + intermittent scheme. no evasion nor fancy stuff yet.

i'm concerned on 1 thing though.
do modern ransomwares focus more on making files unusable or unreadable for the victims?

what do you mean by unusable? most ransomware use unrecoverable encryption or hashing which can only be decrypted with the key which is sent to a server ,somtimes shitty coded ransomware can be exploited if they dont clear the prime numbers used for generating the keys in some encryption algorithms so they can just rebuild the key and wont need to pay .

(November 22, 2022, 02:35 PM)_6n Wrote: what do you mean by unusable? most ransomware use unrecoverable encryption or hashing which can only be decrypted with the key which is sent to a server ,somtimes shitty coded ransomware can be exploited if they dont clear the prime numbers used for generating the keys in some encryption algorithms so they can just rebuild the key and wont need to pay .

unusable, as in, programs that need it to do something can't use it. so the victims can't do their usual activity.

for clearing, you would just "drop" the value, right? clearing the memory that contains it. doesn't sound like a hard thing to forget.