HowDecrypt or CryptorBit Encrypting Ransomware - $500 USD Ransom Topic

There is still nothing new to report that I am aware of.

There is still nothing new to report that I am aware of.

Any way to Brute force it after all this time or anyone that helps for a price or something ? 

Looking to see if anyone still on here or reading this thread ever  reached out to jrtvor or anyone else later on and got help ? I saw at least one post about where he was able to help them. He no longer seems active.. would appreciate any help  from anyone at this point. 

Any way to Brute force it after all this time or anyone that helps for a price or something ?

Brute forcing a decryption key is not possible (not a feasible option) with current technology and quantum computers capable of running Shor's algorithm, due to how the keys are generated using complicated math operations, an infinite number of possibilities to try and the length of time required to break a private encryption key. Some ransomware will use a unique AES-256 encryption key per file which is then encrypted with a bundled RSA-4096 public encryption key unique to each victim. Experts believe we are 20-30+ years away from using quantum computers to break encryption.
 
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Without the criminal's master private encryption key that can be used to decrypt your files, decryption is impossible. That usually means the key is unique (specific) for each victim and generated in a secure way (i.e. RSA, AES, Salsa20, ChaCha20, ECDH, ECC) that cannot be brute-forced...the public key alone that encrypted files is useless for decryption. In most cases, unless the keys are leaked or the criminals are arrested by the authorities and the keys are recovered, then provided to the public, there is no possibility that anyone can provide a decryption solution.

Looking to see if anyone still on here or reading this thread ever  reached out to jrtvor or anyone else later on and got help ? I saw at least one post about where he was able to help them. He no longer seems active.. would appreciate any help  from anyone at this point. 

Never give up on your encrypted files (unless they're of no use after a particular date);

I believe the possibility of decrypting any encrypted file is very real IF you retain them.

Progress can take time, but we never know what tomorrow will bring.

Hang in there!

The tool I had only worked for v1. I believe V1 was the first 512 bytes mangled, but v2 and above was 1024.

If you have 1 original and one mangled file, you can check to see if the 1st 512 bytes or 1st 1024 bytes are messed up. That would help determine v1 vs V2 or above.

If you have an encrypted file that you wouldn't mind sharing, I'd be interested in taking a look.  (If you also have an unencrypted copy of the exact same file I'd  be interested in that too)

No guarantees I'll be able to do anything, but I'm curious what the original/encrypted files look like.