With first decade of the millennium coming to a close this year, it seems a good time to take a look back at some of the malware that has helped shape the current-day attacks on the Web. Modern malware is commercially motivated. Instead of writing malware for ego gratification, today’s attackers are using malware to make money. In hindsight, the May 2000 Loveletter worm was a harbinger of things to come. Nimda can be viewed as a pioneer in malware’s eventual move to the Web. The Nimda worm began its rapid spread around the globe.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2124811/timeline–a-decade-of-malware.html