Get rich quick scheme didn't work out and now that they've been caught, they don't want to face the consequences.
Besides all the rants and angry cries about H1B1 Visas the market for any skilled coders IS HOT!
If you have any coding experience you can make $65,000 tomorrow! Sometimes without a college degree. Add 5 years and more buzzwords to your resume and a degree and you can start pulling close to 6 figures easily if your skills are up to the challenge.
So why take that risk? It is the argument that most drug dealers make less than minimum wage and live with their momma according to Freakeconomics. Seriously, it is the only hope to get ahead by taking that risk if that is all you know. But if you know how to break into systems, corporate security, coding, encryption, networking then you have the skills to get rich by working which is 0 risk.
I do not understand why someone would do this? Those that write these scare encyption malware are Russians who make much less than a western programmer.