"Wana" Ransomware Earns Just $26,000 in Ransom Payments
 

The Bitcoin addresses tied to this week's ransomware attack have only received slightly more than 15 BTC, which converts to approximately $26,148. That amount, of course, is totally disproportionate to the financial damage done to affected companies and users, and it sucks how some people's lives were endangered for such a (comparatively) small reward. Unfortunately, a new strain of the ransomware has emerged without a killswitch, and chaos will likely resume on Monday morning when everyone tries to log onto their work machines. According to a detailed writeup on the Wana ransomware published Friday by security firm Redsocks, Wana contains three bitcoin payment addresses that are hard-coded into the malware. One of the nice things about Bitcoin is that anyone can view all of the historic transactions tied a given Bitcoin payment address. As a result, it's possible to tell how much the criminals at the helm of this crimeware spree have made so far and how many victims have paid the ransom. A review of the three payment addresses hardcoded into the Wana ransomware strain indicates that these accounts to date have received 100 payments totaling slightly more than 15 Bitcoins — or approximately $26,148 at the current Bitcoin-to-dollars exchange rate.

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