Most are widely dispersed.
They lock down a victim’s computers and ask for relatively small amounts, payable in hard-to-trace Bitcoins, in exchange for returning the victim’s life to normal.
The biggest attacks—against corporations—have netted millions of dollars.
Little is known about them because the victims are tight-mouthed.
The massive hack of Sony Pictures in 2014 was a ransom attack, though by whom is still in question.
Presumably Sony did not pay, because its internal e-mails and other information were released onto the Internet.
Last February, hackers seized medical records from the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, in Los Angeles. The hospital paid to get the records back.
We of the meatspace defend our existence on the internet as best as possible.
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