According to various research reports including this one from Cybersecurity Ventures, global ransomware is growing at a fast rate (from $325 mil in 2015 to $5 bil in 2017 according to this report)
http://cybersecurityventures.com/ransomware-damage-report-2017-5-billion/As most ransomware demand BTC payments and some major corporations stock up on BTC in anticipation of these attacks does anyone feel that they are indirectly investing in the ransomware industry?
In my honest opinion ,They generally invest on bitcoins, since they are buying bitcoins for payment, this sounds new to me, but the price hike of bitcoin, in my own thought is because of the ransom ware. I mean, there is no relationship on how ransomware is big on how bitcoin price is rising.
Investing indirectly is somehow not true to me, because if they really indirectly investing in ransomware does that mean that there are persons behind on that ransomwares? because if they really want to stop that ransomware, they will update their security in order to not get attacked again.
Stocking up bitcoin means investing in bitcoin, anticipation of ransomware and not updating their security are for me is that indirectly investing in ransomware industry.