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In their spare time, they collaborate in finding and decrypting new ransomware strains.
The Colonial pipeline ransomware hackers had a secret weapon: self-promoting cybersecurity firms|Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden|May 24, 2021|MIT Technology Review
They download the decryptor, they disassemble it, they reverse-engineer it, and they figure out exactly why we were able to decrypt their files.
The Colonial pipeline ransomware hackers had a secret weapon: self-promoting cybersecurity firms|Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden|May 24, 2021|MIT Technology Review
By contrast, the FBI rarely decrypts ransomware or arrests the attackers, who are typically based in countries like Russia or Iran that lack extradition agreements with the US.
The Colonial pipeline ransomware hackers had a secret weapon: self-promoting cybersecurity firms|Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden|May 24, 2021|MIT Technology Review
On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that Colonial didn’t have a plan to pay a ransom to DarkSide to decrypt data files, but on Thursday several other news outlets reported that Colonial did pay to unlock its data.
Gas shortages persist as operations resume at downed pipeline|Jacob Bogage|May 14, 2021|Washington Post

Colonial Pipeline has no plan at this point to pay a ransom to decrypt data files, said two people familiar with the matter.
Panic buying strikes Southeastern United States as shuttered pipeline resumes operations|Will Englund, Ellen Nakashima|May 12, 2021|Washington Post
Only the participants in any given chat have the keys to decrypt and read their own chats.
Crypto for the Masses: Here’s How You Can Resist the NSA|Quinn Norton|May 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Assange did not have to decrypt them to share them with The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel.
Blame the Defense Department for WikiLeaks|James C. Goodale|March 18, 2011|DAILY BEAST
This is because they would be only available in encrypted form and there would be no way for someone like Assange to decrypt them.
Blame the Defense Department for WikiLeaks|James C. Goodale|March 18, 2011|DAILY BEAST
No one may be able decrypt its email quickly without its help.
How the State Department Can Stop the Next WikiLeaks|James C. Goodale|December 1, 2010|DAILY BEAST
I want you to unlock this phone and then decrypt the files in its memory.
Little Brother|Cory Doctorow
Tomorrow, we'll bring you back and ask you to decrypt the data on these memory sticks.
Little Brother|Cory Doctorow
Because if they can decrypt it with your public key, it can only have been encrypted with your private key.
Little Brother|Cory Doctorow
I'd decrypt it, read it, re-encrypt it with your boss's real public key and send it on.
Little Brother|Cory Doctorow

British Dictionary definitions for decrypt

decrypt

/ (diːˈkrɪpt) /

verb (tr)

to decode (a message) with or without previous knowledge of its key

to make intelligible (a television or other signal) that has been deliberately distorted for transmission

Derived forms of decrypt

decrypted, adjectivedecryption, noun

Word Origin for decrypt

C20: from de- + crypt, as in cryptic

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