Their main weapons are scams, frauds, ponzis, exchange manipulation and theft, ASIC pre-orders and could mining, malicious forks like XT and XPY, shit-coin scams and IPOs, association with illicit activities, pump & dump. In short anything that screws the crypto community out of their money and causes maximum fear uncertainty and doubt (FUD).
I don't think all that is down to 1%ers. The Little People are just as capable of raping the innocent if there's a flash of dollar signs in front of their eyes. Hostile brats in grandma's basement are responsible for most of that list.