Am not coming for the first time toward threads that talks about Binance secret agender on having manipulations discrepancy within its system of operations, is it possible to be true despite all the fame and reputation it has in place and wouldn't the pause in offering some services to South Africans affect the rate of it patronage and many crypto transactions held in Ransom?
I think that the only hidden agenda for Binance was earning more money. They were most attractive for users because the lack of KYC for pretty high amounts at withdrawal (2 BTC/day, pretty much enough even for some medium rollers). Of course, this helped tax evasion, of course this meant that governments didn't have full knowledge about how much money everybody has - whether the reasons are good or not - and this made Binance get more and more enemies.
They've played the cat and mouse game for some years, but now they are heading towards getting regulated. They've opened HQ in Ireland, they started reducing the withdrawal amounts without KYC, hiring people to help getting towards a regulated exchange and so on.
I think that all this will take some time and meanwhile some more countries force them stop their operations, at least for a while.
But I don't think that this is much related to ransomware...