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30 years ago there was ransomware in the wild: 1989 -Popp/ AIDS trojan 2005 - GPCoder trojan 2017 - notpetya (AKA the moller maersk hack) https://actzero.ai/r
by TheBill 5y ago
30 years ago there was ransomware in the wild:
1989 -Popp/ AIDS trojan
2005 - GPCoder trojan
2017 - notpetya (AKA the moller maersk hack)
https://actzero.ai/resources/white-paper/the-rise-of-ransomware-as-a-service/ https://actzero.ai/resources/white-paper/the-rise-of-ransomw...
- tharne 5y agoAmazing how quickly people forget the past.
- sebastien_bois 5y agoI was referring more to general attacks, the type that would have seemed too far-fetched decade(s) ago.
- candiodari 5y agoThe first ever computer virus (arguably) was “brain”, arguably ransomware: https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-malware-when-were-computer-viruses-first-written-and-what-were-their-original-purposes.html https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-malware-when-were-com... Needless to say, it predated cryptocurrency by decades and it’s creators are at the very least millionaires.