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So, it would seem reasonable to assume that around ~120 people/entities have caved in to the ransom demand and paid the USD 300? I wonder if they all actually g
by grkvlt 9y ago
So, it would seem reasonable to assume that around ~120 people/entities have caved in to the ransom demand and paid the USD 300? I wonder if they all actually got their files decrypted?
- mcv 9y agoWhat surprises me about this case is how little information there is about that. Has anyone paid? Did they get their content back? If so, that would encourage others to pay up, making this attack more profitable, and more likely in the future. So I suppose that's why everybody keeps quiet about this. But for important systems, $300 is very cheap compared to restoring the system from backup including all the missed operation time, so I can imagine a lot of people would be tempted to pay. If really only 120 people paid, I'd find that quite surprising.
- liberte82 9y agoA lot of people probably don't know how to pay by bitcoin. I expect this number to jump up as deadlines approach and people figure it out.
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