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Ransomware Gangs Encrypt Systems After 17hrs From Initial Infection (cybersecuritynews.com)

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Enabling AES-NI hardware encryption helps mitigate partial-file encryption attacks

Why

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago

probably because the encryption is happening in the hardware, inside the CPU and not in software

so outside code isn't being used