Ransomware has been grabbing the headlines in a big way because of the insidious nature of it. This is a problem that wont go away anytime soon as there is a significant revenue potential here for the criminals that leverage this sort of software. Unlike the AIDS ransomware, the modern descendants encrypt files and in some cases entire hard drives and demand princely sums in bitcoin. While we focus on the rise of modern ransomware we can learn a lot from the history of malware that had come before it and prepare for what is yet to come.”]
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