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There are reports of hundreds to thousands of machines infected across multiple firms in multiple countries. I'd bet >99% of people are never gonna send the $30

There are reports of hundreds to thousands of machines infected across multiple firms in multiple countries. I'd bet >99% of people are never gonna send the $300 in bitcoin to decrypt their machine, instead they'll just clean and restore as much as they can. The $3k is 11 people desperate to restore all their data now, more may come in the future after people have exhausted other options, but the vast majority will never pay unless their backups were hit too.

mbaha 9y ago
Exactly. This is a huge attack. The amounts paid don't mean a thing.
49para 9y ago
Seems like a better approach would be to have the ransom increase higher after every person that paid. Just so you'd have some competetion to pay sooner.