Cybercrime generally results in actual destruction of value, as even for pure ransomware attacks where a ransom is paid, the losses to businesses and recovery c

Cybercrime generally results in actual destruction of value, as even for pure ransomware attacks where a ransom is paid, the losses to businesses and recovery costs are on the same scale as the ransom itself, and of course there are cases like the NotPetya attack, which caused billions of damages and did not even have a working mechanism to extract money from victims, it was purely destructive.