Ransomware has been happening long before [1] crypto existed. Maybe a similar, but also ridiculous, statement would be:

> Ransomware was made possible by computers so.. uhm.. there's that.

1. https://www.crowdstrike.com/cybersecurity-101/ransomware/his....

Seems I hit a sore spot to provoke such a pedantic reply.

Obviously the cryptography was not enabled by crypto currencies, but the possibility to accept ransom payments at scale with little risk. Are you going to argue that crypto didn't facilitate the absolute boom in ransomware we've seen the past few years? The article you link says it did.