If you plant CSAM, you must possess, distribute, and transmit CSAM. That creates moral and legal barriers. The median ransomware actor probably finds CSAM repul

If you plant CSAM, you must possess, distribute, and transmit CSAM. That creates moral and legal barriers. The median ransomware actor probably finds CSAM repulsive and wrong. If you plant material that matches CSAM hashes, you do none of that. The median ransomware actor might find this to thje fastest way to collect a thousand monero. Also, you can distribute 30 media items per message via WhatsApp. There is a configurable setting for WhatsApp to save all received photos to your iCloud photo library. No exploits needed, you could probably weaponise this via an WhatsApp bot.