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by nullstyle 3317 days ago
Yes, I'm well aware. And if you look at the dashboard for the botnet (https://intel.malwaretech.com/botnet/wcrypt/?t=24h&bid=all) it looks like we're dealing with ~80000 infected hosts.

Unless I'm reading things wrongs (and that certainly could be) it seems like the ransom from those hosts would still be several orders of magnitude lower than the new money that appears to be coming into the exchanges.