I have always wondered how do these malicious actors with their bots manage to do so much. Do they ever get caught? It's like there is no deterrent. For exampl

I have always wondered how do these malicious actors with their bots manage to do so much. Do they ever get caught? It's like there is no deterrent. For example, if you use bots to spam Wordpress blogs with comments that contain links to your site (black hat SEO), that is obviously a bad thing to do, but I'm not sure if it's even against a law.