Researchers Seek Help Cracking Gauss Mystery Payload

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at Kaspersky Lab are asking the public for help in cracking an encrypted warhead that gets delivered to infected machines by the recently discovered Gauss malware toolkit. They're publishing encrypted sections and hashes in the hope that cryptographers will be able to help them out." Adds reader DavidGilbert99: "The so-called Godel module is targeting a specific machine with specific system configurations, and Kaspersky believes the victim is likely a high-profile target. The decryption key, Kaspersky believes, will be derived from these specific system configurations, and so far it has been unable to find out what they are."

Geez, just ask the NSA

[crazyjj]

What did you guys put in it, again?

Cracking might be impossible

[cvtan]

If the DOJ and NSA can't get into an Apple iPhone, what chance is there of cracking this?

Degauss?

[MatrixCubed]

Clever of the tech world, to obsolete CRT monitors. Perhaps shaking one's head rapidly from side to side would help solve this mystery.

I've Got It!!!

[MasterOfGoingFaster]

I just ran the code and something about my system is causing it to decrypt, and it appears be tr***CARRIER LOST***

Re:Geez, just ask the NSA

[jhoegl]

I wonder if they tried "GOD" for the password.
Hey... it worked in hackers.