There are ransomware oligarchs who's "job" is to manage ransomware hackers and make sure they only hit targets that Putin would permit, or explicitly direct them to targets Putin desires. They provide the hackers needed resources and they collect a cut.
https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1413192991876042755
The hackers themselves are a mix of those who are greedy and ambitious — let's call them the GRU track — and those who got in too deep and are coerced into serving the oligarch. The latter are the disposable assets that are more likely to end up getting caught.
Those who get caught are unlikely to know the oligarch that was sponsoring them, and anyway would probably prefer prison to what they fear from the oligarchy.
The point here is that the goal needs to be finding the oligarch bosses and shutting them down. This solves the ransomware problem, pisses off Putin, yet it keeps the response ostensibly apolitical.
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