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Why are these orders of magnitude more profitable than WannaCrypt? More computers infected? Bigger percentage of targets paying the ransom? Larger ransom amount
by ufo 9y ago
Why are these orders of magnitude more profitable than WannaCrypt? More computers infected? Bigger percentage of targets paying the ransom? Larger ransom amounts? Something else?
- matthewbauer 9y agoI've read that even after paying you don't get your files back. Might just be buggy software.
- pcr0 9y agoIt seems they accepted alternate methods of payment aside from BTC, which suggests technical difficulties in acquiring BTC.
- celticninja 9y agoPeople have started taking better backups, now they have the option to restore, plus it's too big, the UK government is never going to pay $300 per computer when you may have 10,000 computers locked up. When you get a small firm with 5 pcs and the cost is $1500 it's a cheap lesson so you pay up.
- tudorconstantin 9y agoIsn't the decryption key the same? You pay once and are able to devrypt all the 10k computers?
- celticninja 9y agoWhy would it be? Usually Ransomware has a unique btc address per infection (per machine) so the decryption key is linked to the payment, that doesn't seem to be the case with this malware.
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- Nomentatus 9y agoMaybe 'cause it wasn't a commercial operation, but a "retaliation at a time and place of our own choosing" that spread outside Russia before the killswitch could be hit via their cutout.