[cherryturnover]

My mind went there as well. Say I'm an affluent oligarch shorting major companies. I'd paying the ransom group to massively attack the company or various companies. Then cash out during the chaos.

[whimsicalism]

Yes, except for the fact that we don't hear about most of these attacks because both the attacker and attacked keep them quiet.

That doesn't jive with your market manipulation hypothesis.