Aside from the desire to impart chaos via these attacks. There is definite economic attack damage incentive still in place. In fact - if ransoms are banned -

Aside from the desire to impart chaos via these attacks. There is definite economic attack damage incentive still in place. In fact - if ransoms are banned - then it would seem that such types of attacks become more of a state sponsored attack to affect the economy of your enemy/competition What if it were apple attacking FB or something like that. Surely we will see this in the future, just as originally foretold in Neuromancer.