Moneystuff had a good post that touched on this today. Even if they don’t pay, the scammers buy puts on the public stock for the companies they’re ransoming so

Moneystuff had a good post that touched on this today. Even if they don’t pay, the scammers buy puts on the public stock for the companies they’re ransoming so they profit off of blowing them up too. I’d imagine that’s easier to track and stop, but it’s interesting.