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by unklefolk 3325 days ago
I think this venn diagram explain part of the problem:

https://www.trustar.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/WannaCryVe...

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How did the 300M USD CryptoWall cashed that much?
That's a good question. Here is a link to the numbers:

http://thehackernews.com/2015/10/cryptowall-ransomware.html

That averages out at $800 per infection compared to about $0.30 per infection from WannaCry. I suspect there are other factors at play here (was all the revenue from ransoms? were that target systems different? are people hardening in their resolve not to pay these ransoms?).