{"id":15335,"date":"2017-05-15T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15335"},"modified":"2017-05-15T07:14:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T11:14:51","slug":"the-makers-of-wannacry-havent-made-much-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/the-makers-of-wannacry-havent-made-much-money\/","title":{"rendered":"The Makers Of WannaCry Haven\u2019t Made Much Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051517_1110_TheMakersOf1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The WannaCry bug encrypts users&#8217; files and demands a Bitcoin ransom in return for the unlock key. Only those that have disabled security updates are vulnerable to it. Rhett Jones looked into the earnings of the perpetrators:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One expert used publicly available Bitcoin data to estimate that WannaCry&#8217;s creators had made just $26,000.<\/li>\n<li>There is evidence that some users may even have negotiated down the original asking ransom price of $300.<\/li>\n<li>The bug threatens to double prices if users don&#8217;t immediately pay the ransom so it&#8217;s possible earnings will jump.<\/li>\n<li>Analysis done in 2012 indicated that approximately 3% of people pay up when hit with ransomware attacks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/hackers-behind-massive-ransomware-have-made-an-embarras-1795195644\">Gizmodo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WannaCry bug encrypts users&#8217; files and demands a Bitcoin ransom in return for the unlock key. Only those that have disabled security updates are vulnerable to it. Rhett Jones looked into the earnings of the perpetrators: One expert used publicly available Bitcoin data to estimate that WannaCry&#8217;s creators had made just $26,000. There is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051517_1110_TheMakersOf1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15338,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335\/revisions\/15338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}