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Автор: Roger A. Grimes
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
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isbn: 9781119849131
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       Roger A. Grimes

      I've been doing computer security since 1987, for more than 34 years now. I remember the first ransomware program I, or anyone else alive at the time, saw. It arrived in December 1989 on a 5-1/4″ floppy disk and quickly became known as the AIDS PC Cyborg Trojan.

      Wess didn't call it ransomware then. You don't make up entirely new classification names until you get more than one of something, and at the time it was the first and only. It remained that way for years. Little did we know that it would be the beginning of a gigantic digital crime industry and a huge blight of digital evil across the world in the decades ahead.

      It was fairly simple as compared to today's ransomware programs, but it still had enough code to thoroughly obfuscate data, and its creator had enough moxie to ask for $189 ransom in order to restore the data. The story of the first ransomware program and its creator still seems too strange and unlikely even today. If someone tried to duplicate the truth in a Hollywood hacker movie, you wouldn't believe it. Today's ransomware creators and gangs are far more believable.

      Back in the late 1980s, AIDS research and understanding was fairly new and very rudimentary. There was still a widespread fear of the relatively new disease and how it was transmitted. Unlike with today's treatments and antivirals, early on, getting HIV/AIDS was a death sentence. At the time, many people were afraid of kissing or even hugging people who might have AIDS or were in high-risk groups. There was great interest for the latest information and learnings, inside and out of the medical community.

      No one besides Dr. Popp knows why he decided to write the world's first ransomware program. Some have speculated he was disgruntled at not getting a much-desired job in the AIDS research industry and wanted to strike back, but it can just as easily be stated that he just wanted to make sure he got paid for his work. Still, there are definite signs of hiding and malevolent intent from a man who knew his creation would not be taken well. It's hard to say you didn't know something was illegal when you try to hide your involvement.

      Dr. Popp purchased a mailing list of attendees from a recently held October 1988 AIDS conference in Stockholm put on by the World Health Organization and purportedly also used the subscriber lists of a UK computer magazine called PC Business World and other business magazines.

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