Global ‘Wana’ Ransomware Outbreak Earned Perpetrators $26k So Far

Re:Global ‘Wana’ Ransomware Outbreak Earned Perpetrators $26... by paulgb on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:35PM (#14344432)

They passed up a good opportunity for price discovery: have the ransomware pick a random number between, say, 10 and 1000 and learn from that for future attacks.

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Re:Global ‘Wana’ Ransomware Outbreak Earned Perpetrators $26... by occamrazor on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:48PM (#14344548)

Other ramsomware authors did this. I remember reading that the optimal amount is somewhere between 300 and 500$, but i can't find a source anymore.

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Re:Global ‘Wana’ Ransomware Outbreak Earned Perpetrators $26... by DenisM on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:46PM (#14344526)

They could also make a machine learning model to take into account the part of the world, the hardware model, and other wealth indicators.

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