WannaCry ransomware deadline passes, but few pay up | ZDNet

Despite the chaos caused by the recent ransomware attack, the criminals behind it have netted a relatively small amount of cash.
As the Wannacry ransomware worm wreaked havoc across the globe last week, claiming hundreds of thousands of victims in 150 countries, it issued victims with a simple demand: pay up or lose access to your data.

Those organisations which became infected were met with a ransom demand for $300 in Bitcoin to be sent to the attackers. If that payment wasn’t made within three days, the extortion demand rose to $600 — and those who left it a week were threatened with their files being deleted forever.

Source: WannaCry ransomware deadline passes, but few pay up | ZDNet

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