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Pardon the Intrusion #25: Ransomware goes pro


Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. Ransomware is quickly shaping up to be one the most significant online security threats of our era. And there’s no end in sight. Although it’s been around for several decades, the first instance of what we now know as ransomware was documented in 1989. Known as AIDS or the PC Cyborg Trojan, the malware targeted the healthcare sector via floppy disks. It counted the number of times a computer booted, and once this…

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