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Korean cybersecurity agency released a free decryptor for Hive ransomware

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According to a report published by blockchain analytics company Chainalysis, the Hive ransomware is one of the top 10 ransomware strains by revenue in 2021. The malware is extracted from a specific offset of the master key 1MiB and 1KiB of data for each file to be encrypted and uses as a keystream.

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A flaw in the encryption algorithm of Hive Ransomware allows retrieving encrypted files

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According to a report published by blockchain analytics company Chainalysis, the Hive ransomware is one of the top 10 ransomware strains by revenue in 2021. “Hive ransomware uses a hybrid encryption scheme, but uses its own symmetric cipher to encrypt files. The offset is stored in the encrypted file name of each file.