SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 21, 2020
Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013.
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