The freshest Akira variant uses old-timey encryption method vulnerable to brute-force methods

It breaks old-timey encryption.

Good thing when my main rig goes down I have a, checks notes, 16 RTX 4090 BACKUP MACHINE.

In other news ZFS and proper back ups do this in about 30 seconds.

So stick to wibbly wobbly, timey wimey encryption? Got it.

Does this mean that 1 RTX4090 can do it in a week?:)

Not sure if they have this specific GPU or not, but I know AWS has on-demand instances with GPUs (and other cloud providers like Google likely do as well). It’s probably just a matter of time before somebody deploys self-service images so a business that got hit by this ransomware could quickly recover on their own.