What's the Point of Shutting Down a Ransomware Group?

"I think that it's a pretty smart tactic because it acknowledges that unless you can actually make arrests, these gangs aren't gangs in the tradition," he says. "They're little temporary brands built around a loose group of people who are trying to fulfill a goal and then we'll scatter off into the ether afterwards." There were no arrests made in conjunction with this yet; there might have been, but they certainly haven't been announced.