If these guys get their 1000's of BTC they are demanding from the NHS they will likely be the ones selling it to them, then receiving it back to their wallets before reselling it on the market. IDK.

Sketchy. The ETF is 100% sure to be disapproved.

why? only because a bunch of incompetent don't know what a malicious email is and click on "ifyouclickhereistealyourbitcoin.com", if they are base their decision on this

they don't have a clue what bitcoin is about, which is not about criminal activity and don't deserve to approve it

anyway these balance are very low amount, i doubt someone like the ETF care about this thing

Na this virus was advanced it detected vulnerable computers in a network and automatically infected them without a user needing to do anything.
Basically once inside a system it spreads like a bloom.

But true enough it takes one incompetent to compromise the network, sucks to be SYSADMIN that said it was targeted.

"On one occasion a computer in the United States was compromised but, following infection, an uninstaller was launched within hours, which may indicate this victim was infected unintentionally," Symantec noted.
The malware contained logs documenting changes that closely mirrored such records in Vault7 malware, the firm claimed.

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Unlike many other malicious programs, this one has the ability to move around a network by itself. Most others rely on humans to spread by tricking them into clicking on an attachment harbouring the attack code.

By contrast, once WannaCry is inside an organisation it will hunt down vulnerable machines and infect them too. This perhaps explains why its impact is so public - because large numbers of machines at each victim organisation are being compromised.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39553241
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39901382

That ETF portion doesn't even make sense. Why would the ETF not be approved because there are some people who clicked on something they shouldn't have or got everyone's machines infected by bringing something in? Considering that they were only asking for $300 it shows it wasn't a targeted attack and was a generic ransomware that infected their systems.

Why no one is crying how much fiat money is stolen everyday from banks using the same old phishing method:
Fake banking websites designed by phishers, links are usually distributed via email spam as well.

https://www.fraudhelpdesk.org/fake-banking-websites-designed-phishers/

They say it's the largest ransomware attack ever made, NSA is guilty of this because hackers apparently used their tools to spread it. https://intel.malwaretech.com/botnet/wcrypt

No. The NSA is not the guilty party here. Microsoft is. Security is not the primary design goal of Windows. DRM and the protection of "intellectual property", followed by up-selling are the primary design goals of Windows.

Was Windows XP the only OS affected? Or the newest ones too?

Most of the affected systems had Windows XP (perhaps more than 90%). It was quite irresponsible from the part of Microsoft to end their support for Windows XP. The severity of this particular attack could have been significantly reduced if there was support.

Sure and kill networking with other Windows computers? Also the malware is also spread via email.