VECT: Ransomware by design, Wiper by accident

Key Takeaways Check Point Research discovers that the VECT 2.0 ransomware permanently destroys “large files” rather than encrypting them . A critical flaw in the encryption implementation, identical across all three platform variants ( Windows , Linux , ESXi ), discards three of four decryption nonces for every file above 131,072 bytes ( 128 KB ). Full recovery is impossible for anyone , including the attacker . At a threshold of only 128 KB , this effectively makes VECT a wiper for virtually an