NITROGEN RANSOMWARE IS SO BROKEN EVEN THE CROOKS CAN'T UNLOCK YOUR FILES

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Ransomware gang Nitrogen shipped an ESXi encryptor with a fatal bug that corrupted its own Curve25519 public key, making decryption mathematically impossible even if victims pay. The slipup turns a profit-driven campaign into pure destruction: criminals earn nothing while organizations are left with unrecoverable hypervisors and costly rebuilds.