Poor Encryption Trips Up Black Basta Ransomware

And, so, at the end of December 2023, Security Research Labs released a decryptor for the Black Basta ransomware [here]. How could this happen? Well, the solution focuses on the usage of stream encryption to encrypt the files. Within any stream encryption method, it is possible to flip bits in a file if you know the original version of the content. For example, let’s say we have “abc” (01100001 01100010…