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This is an old attack vector. No one is learning from history. The organizations being hit have poor cybersecurity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_malware_
by firesteelrain 2y ago
This is an old attack vector. No one is learning from history. The organizations being hit have poor cybersecurity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_malware_infection_of_the_United_States_Department_of_Defense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_malware_infection_of_the_...
- convivialdingo 2y agoSuper old… my first experience with a “virus” was an Amiga boot sector attack from 1986! At the time the morris worm had inspired some folks to see if they could spread binaries by infecting every disk inserted. That’s all it did….. spread. I think the virus lives off an interrupt generated by disk insertions. Fortunately it was harmless (except for a few extra crashes) and I had my original OS disks that could be booted from to clean up the disks.
- edanm 2y agoJust in case anyone isn't aware of this history - the "Morris worm" being referred to here is named after Robert Morris who wrote it. He's also one of the co-founders of YC, which built HN.