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Re:The Oncoming Ransomware Storm by TheBill on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:18PM (#27122960)
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-ransomw...

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Re:The Oncoming Ransomware Storm by sebastien_bois on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @08:57PM (#27125462)
I was referring more to general attacks, the type that would have seemed too far-fetched decade(s) ago.
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Re:The Oncoming Ransomware Storm by candiodari on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @06:32PM (#27135966)
The first ever computer virus (arguably) was “brain”, arguably ransomware:

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.

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Re:The Oncoming Ransomware Storm by tharne on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @05:07PM (#27123541)
Amazing how quickly people forget the past.
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