With a dash of fight club. It reminds me of the scene where Tyler puts a gun to Raymond's head and makes him go back to college.

or script kiddie meets open-source? or the dark side of open-source perhaps?

Mr.Robot is incredible show, Sam Esmail, Rami Malek and Christian Slater potentially created the top series of the decade, but this is not the reality.

Agreed with Mr. Robot part 100%.

About whoever is behind this ransomware, of course this is nothing "fsociety-level" though the general intentions (hacking powerful ones and changing of powers) gave me a similar vibe.