Researchers quietly cracked Zeppelin ransomware keys
> “The challenge was that they delete the [public key] once the files are fully encrypted. Memory analysis gave us about a 5-minute window after files were encrypted to retrieve this public key.”<p>> Unit 221B ultimately built a “Live CD” version of Linux that victims could run on infected systems to extract that RSA-512 key.<p>I'm guessing most didn't make it within the 5-min window, so the Live CD would recover the "deleted" record from the Windows Registry database?