Except they didn't say that they are doing this to bring attention to security issues. They are doing it because they can, and because it brings them some enter

Except they didn't say that they are doing this to bring attention to security issues. They are doing it because they can, and because it brings them some entertainment – that's the point the gunshot analogy was addressing. They only bring up all the silent malicious hacking that happens as an argument that we shouldn't care so much about what they're doing.