RANSOMWARE impact

[bitbunnny]

Maybe the ob good thing in this all bad ransomware situation is that the hackers haven't earned that much, people were not paying to them. At least not that much as they have expected tow get. And I hop at least some of the victims have learned their lesson about the importance of protection and having back up.

[mad3]

As unfortunate as it is, it will actually increase demand for bitcoins through random people who have never used it needing all of a sudden to buy it.
In other words it will bring new people to the technology some of who otherwise would have resisted it to the end

[douglock]

The Ransomware really influents Bitcoin and make more people to attention to it. There are many opinions about bitcoin since wannacry exists. Some are bad, some are good but we have to admit that Bitcoin and ransomware is today trend and nothing can beat them. Soon, people will invest money in this crypto

[gordoh]

I cant believe that WannaCry made it all the way to South Africa. What are the chances of that happening. Generally Africans stay below the radar when it comes to cyber crimes of this nature but not this time. Unfortunately I don't know much more information than that guys. I don't know who in SA got hit or anything like that.

[unisilver]

I think the bitcoin will fall because of RANSOMWARE,it is impossible/Difficult to track who did this and in futur Bitcoins will be considered as a motivation mean for such act

i am not into this news but i hear some of this but dont know the exact details.. i just wanted to ask if is there any instances about this ransomware that bitcoin is what they want the victim to pay? or just purely cash or something?

[Xenophoto]

This is a very annoying incident that hackers include bitcoin in their hacking, if like this bitcoin will be viewed negatively and I'm afraid bitcoin will be judged as a supportive digital currency in terms of crime. I hope bitcoin will not be blocked because of this incident. Another one, I hope the bitcoin price does not go down drastically because of this incident.

Did you really have to feel sad about the situation? I honestly think that this is actually a good thing since it will raise awareness to people that such thing as bitcoin is existing. Consider this a free advertisement from the hackers.

What other digital currency do you propose them to use, though? Obviously they are not going to accept paper money since they would have to meetup with the victim or use a certain bank account. Paypal is no good as well since there will be whereabouts and the payments can easily be disputed.

The price of bitcoin has gone down by a hundred dollar which is totally not mind-boggling.

[HatZpApA]

This is a very annoying incident that hackers include bitcoin in their hacking, if like this bitcoin will be viewed negatively and I'm afraid bitcoin will be judged as a supportive digital currency in terms of crime. I hope bitcoin will not be blocked because of this incident. Another one, I hope the bitcoin price does not go down drastically because of this incident.

Did you really have to feel sad about the situation? I honestly think that this is actually a good thing since it will raise awareness to people that such thing as bitcoin is existing. Consider this a free advertisement from the hackers.

What other digital currency do you propose them to use, though? Obviously they are not going to accept paper money since they would have to meetup with the victim or use a certain bank account. Paypal is no good as well since there will be whereabouts and the payments can easily be disputed.

The price of bitcoin has gone down by a hundred dollar which is totally not mind-boggling.

Well , actually the single way the attackers could be found is through blockchain and their adresses/transactions in case they use the BTC they got.
Many blockchain tracker expers have been hired these days to help finding those who started the mess.
There's no reason BTC price would go down. Actually , the media and the news focusing on BTC could even bring new investors and make people trust BTC even more , as a very safe way to hold your money.

[rajasumi3]

Wanna cry has not been able to earn that amount of bitcoins as i have heard that the amount is fairly low,and even if the people are paying in bitcoins,it will have little effect in the price of bitcoins.

[Rajadurai]

A ransomware now leads to bitcoin is useful for illegal purpose.Now,most of btc unknown peoples are wakeup and they're searching about what is bitcoin etc.,. so,my opinion btc price will be grow and usage also growing very speed.

[Dr.Osh]

If viewed from the negative side, I feel that this virus is very annoying. Even we have to send btc so the data we have does not disappear. But, if looking from the other side, maybe the person who made this is a genius.

[monsanto]

Ironically, what might hurt ransomware the most is if there continues to be more versions that don't actually unencrypt a persons files after they pay. However, it is difficult to see how all this ends in the short term because how do you stop insiders/employees from injecting ransomware in systems for profit. Long term we will probably see all computers manufactured with designs to combat ransomware.

[btcforall777]

Its possible that the awareness of wannacry will soften the impact on future victims and expose others that have never heard of bitcoin to it. How ever you look at it, it is a positive in the long run.

[darkangel11]

Saying ransomware has negative effect on bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general is like saying that money laundering has a negative effect on money. Criminal activities are connected to every currency in the world, every money transmitting entity be it banks, atms, credit cards and other. It's inevitable that hackers will try to target people with ransomware and bitcoin is the easiest solution in their view. The best answer is to do our best to be safe, keep backups and not allow ourselves to be threatened.
If you are paying them, you are financing all their future projects.

[v0rtecxz]

This is the worst incident, maybe this is the way of a handful of people to get bitcoint quickly, and maybe bitcoint will be considered negative by the people, let alone those who have never know or use bitcoint

[virasog]

Its possible that the awareness of wannacry will soften the impact on future victims and expose others that have never heard of bitcoin to it. How ever you look at it, it is a positive in the long run.

Well its a mixed sort of thing. We never wanted that bitcoin gain attention in the media related to hackers attempts news. Although these days we see everyone talking about bitcoin but most of them wrongly relaying bitcoin with hacking which is not right and good thing for bitcoins. We always have wanted bitcoin in the Social media and TV news but with positive vision.

[CyberKuro]

I think the bitcoin will fall because of RANSOMWARE,it is impossible/Difficult to track who did this and in futur Bitcoins will be considered as a motivation mean for such act

It's a negative event and not sure if it can/cannot affect bitcoin significantly, but bitcoin price seems decline in the last few days and not sure if ransomware has something to do with it.
Many countries have issued precaution act.to prevent any further spread of the virus or solve it, at least people already know about it and be careful with that. However, it seems ransomware doesn't influence people to buy/sell bitcoin as the price stay at same level until now.

[Bitcoinsummoner]

I was victim of ransomware before and receive the same as this in notepad always popup when restarting the computer



the issue before when found an antivirus that has ransomware decryptor from kaspersky before and all my files was recover but the popup notes are still not gone so i decided to format my laptop for safety since i have my own backup..

This is why a big issue about ransomware that until now not solve..

[allthebitandbobs]

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Out of curiosity, if the mixing services were forced by the Interpol to reveal all the data, would they? it's a big question.
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Does a bear crap in the woods .Of course they will Hidemyass hush mail etc etc there a ton of exmaples sf supposely we respect your security  and will never give up your info soon change there tune when the big  law enforcemnet agencies gets invloved . Even if there base in countries that are outside the FBI INTERPOL juractions they have "ways" of getting the people involved to talk

[TryNinja]

I don't think there will be a lot of impact on the price.
People need to stop trying to blame bitcoin just because It's being used by criminals.

It's the same as blaming the Dollar just because someone kidnapped your son and asked for money.

[SaShiRaJaVu]

This is the worst incident, maybe this is the way of a handful of people to get bitcoint quickly, and maybe bitcoint will be considered negative by the people, let alone those who have never know or use bitcoint

Bitcoin has nothing to do with the recent attacks and if hackers use one form of transaction method does not mean that it has to be crucified,the problem lies in the fact that Microsoft OS are vulnerable for these kind of attacks and if you are not careful with it you have to pay more to fix the issue,start using open source software.