Malventy software as we know them are now extremely dangerous due to forms of transmission, the fact that they can infect thousands of computers in a few seconds in fact something really worrying in terms of security. But there was a time when his distribution was not so simple because they could not use the Internet for that, but there was still one that managed to infect a large number of equipment with a format widely used at the time, the primer ransomware of the history This managed to sneak in more than 20,000 time teams.
And ransomware is a type of malware with the objective of encrypt los data From a computer preventing the user from accessing it and, in turn, offering the attacker the possibility of requesting a ransom to eliminate encryption. These types of malware are quite common in the business field, with various objectives such as servers, because they can have a very complicated system to eliminate, which means that many companies end up paying the price of the rescue to access their data which is often very important money.
The first ransomware used a distribution method according to its time
Although now the vast majority of malware are digitally distributed, during the rise of computer science, it was not one of the most common ways to do so, the fact that the Internet has happened greatly things for attackers who wanted to enter the computer of other people to obtain their data. But that does not imply that there would be no attacks through physical devices, because it was the first to allow an infected cybercrime the computers of users and companies also, which happened with the first ransomware which arrived in a disk disc called “AIDS Information – Introduction DISAGE 2.0”.
The developer of this malicious software was the American biologist, Dr. Joseph Lewis Andrew Popp Jr., who created a complete operation to distribute around 20,000 units from this infected disk. Adage ransomware His goal was to ask for a rescue to encrypt the files of the computers he infected, although he could not really take control of the data, but all he did was to encrypt the names of the various documents, so that two programs called “Aidsout” and “Aidsclear” quickly came out to fight it.
The moment when malware was launched in a strategic moment when the concern for AIDS was really great, at the end of the 80s, so it was the ideal situation for users and large companies to use a disk disc which simulated it on what this disease was. Among the most affected institutions, data indicate that an Italian health organization has been the one that has suffered the greatest losses, and has apparently lost a decade of precious research data due to the malicious program.
The most curious thing on this subject is that the master mind behind this malicious software managed to avoid prison when it was mentally incapable since it started to show strange behavior that led him to enter the Maudsley hospital in London instead of taking prison.
