Ransomware-as-a-Service is Changing Extortion Efforts
Thirty-five years ago, a misguided AIDS activist developed a piece of malware that encrypted a computer’s filenames—and asked for US $189 to obtain the key that unlocked an afflicted system. This “AIDS Trojan” holds the dubious distinction of being the world’s first piece of ransomware. In the intervening decades the encryption behind ransomware has become … Read more
