FYI I’m not the original poster who commented on the terrorism aspect, but I think ransomware is difficult to categorize because it is often a spray and pray-ty

FYI I’m not the original poster who commented on the terrorism aspect, but I think ransomware is difficult to categorize because it is often a spray and pray-type attack. And occasionally a vulnerability and other infection vectors line up neatly enough to cause huge damage. So in this case, the better analogy would be explosives - someone tried to blow a safe to get the money inside but the explosion also killed an innocent bystander.