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Does ransomware’s evolution point to a cybercrime apocalypse?

One of the first ransomware attacks ever documented was the AIDS Trojan – also known as the PC Cyborg Virus. Conceived in 1989, it was released on 20,000 infected floppy diskettes labelled “AIDS Information – Introductory Diskettes” and disseminated to attendees at the World Health Organization’s AIDS conference in Stockholm.   The trojan hid directories …

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