As opposed to needing to dip their toes in “illegal” conduct and making their income streams unsound or too risky in terms of legal liabillity by doing ransom demands
As opposed to needing to dip their toes in “illegal” conduct and making their income streams unsound or too risky in terms of legal liabillity by doing ransom demands
IIRC, there’s an investment group that does a version of this - they short the stock then release and publicize the information.