Crypto, Covid, and the Growing Ransomware Crisis

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While ransomware has increasingly been hitting the news cycles as cyber attacks grow increasingly more common and sophisticated, it may surprise you to learn that one of the first known cyber attacks occurred during the 1980s. That’s right, in the era of rock and roll, big hair, and neon colored clothes, the first ransomware was released, on floppy disk.