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Re:Hack-petya mission accomplished – Petya ransomware decryptor by mangeletti on Monday April 11, 2016 @08:43PM (#11476368)
My guess is that the authors wanted to ensure they could encrypt a full disk quickly.
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Re:Hack-petya mission accomplished – Petya ransomware decryptor by arviewer on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @04:38AM (#11478022)
Maybe it's just a test to see how quickly this was broken.
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