Anyone who can benefit from: 1. Mining cryptocurrency 2. Selling access to a botnet 3. Encrypting and ransoming the computer's contents All of the above can

Anyone who can benefit from: 1. Mining cryptocurrency 2. Selling access to a botnet 3. Encrypting and ransoming the computer's contents All of the above can be done to/with almost any computer on a network, so the intrinsic benefit from hacking extends to just about every computer with a network connection.