What Is a Blackmail Virus and How to Fight It? Complete Security
Once upon a time in the thirty-ninth kingdom… lived a blackmailer virus. Wait, was that only 30 years ago? The Ransomware blackmail virus is so popular (not from the good meaning of the word) that it seems to us that we have known it all our lives. Although he is only 31 years old, he is still young and beautiful, even in his prime and can do a lot of harm to any user on the Internet. Although there are still users who are sceptical of such viruses and believe that they will not get to them. In today's article, we will talk about who is (what is) this virus blackmailer, how it is arranged, how it infects computers and how its "work" can affect your business. Let's go. The first blackmail virus attack in history Back in 1989, biologist Joseph Popp wrote the "Trojan AIDS virus," the first known malware to be the world's first example of a virus known as a "blackmailer." The AIDS Trojan was introduced into PC systems via a floppy disk, which Pop...