Not to mention that the central office is in the US, and this seems to be used to lock/wipe computers in other countries, so much harder to prosecute them. How

Not to mention that the central office is in the US, and this seems to be used to lock/wipe computers in other countries, so much harder to prosecute them. However, if the person alerting the central office can be shown to have known the expected effect of their alert, then likely they'd still be guilty of obstruction of justice.