Naah, it's a way to have plausible deniability. If you're asking for ransom, you're admitting you built the virus.
This way, they can say "Gosh, Mr. Police/FBI/Interpol guy, I don't know how it got started. It's a lucky coincidence that we happen to know how to fix it....."
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