The people who stopped the most dangerous computer virus of all time.
It was the evening of November 2, 1988, and a new computer virus was unleashed on the world. The Morris Worm, named after its creator Robert Tappan Morris, was designed to replicate itself and spread across the internet, infecting as many computers as possible. Within 24 hours, the worm had infected an estimated 6,000 computers, crashing many of them. The Morris Worm was the first true computer virus, and it was also the most dangerous.
But it was not just the Morris Worm’s destructive potential that made it so dangerous. The worm also exposed a critical flaw in the design of the internet itself. The internet was not built to be secure, and the Morris Worm took advantage of that. The worm spread by infecting computers and then exploitation vulnerabilities in the way those computers communicated with each other. In other words, the Morris Worm used the very structure of the internet to infect more and more computers.
The Morris Worm was eventually stopped by a team of researchers from around the world who came together to contain the virus. They did this by developing a “vaccine” for the worm and then distributing it to computers that had not yet been infected. This team of researchers was able to stop the Morris Worm before it could do any more damage, but their work was just beginning.
The Morris Worm was a wake-up call for the internet community. It showed that the internet was not as secure as it should be. In the years that followed, the internet community came together to try to make the internet more secure. They developed new protocols and technologies to make it harder for viruses like the Morris Worm to spread. They also created organizations like the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to continue to improve the security of the internet.
Today, the internet is more secure than it was in 1988, but it is still not perfect. There are always new viruses and new ways for them to spread. But thanks to the work of the researchers who stopped the Morris Worm, we are better prepared to deal with these threats..Reference
How the most dangerous computer virus of all time has been stopped.
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How the most dangerous computer virus of all time has been stopped
It is no secret that the most dangerous computer virus of all time is the Mydoom virus. This virus was responsible for causing billions of dollars in damage to businesses and governments around the world. It is estimated that the Mydoom virus caused over $50 billion in damage to the global economy.
The Mydoom virus was first discovered in 2004. It was created by a Russian cybercriminal group known as the Kaptoxa gang. The Mydoom virus was spread through email attachments. When opened, the virus would infect the victim’s computer and give the Kaptoxa gang control of the infected computer. The Kaptoxa gang would then use the infected computers to send out spam emails and launch denial of service attacks against websites.
In 2006, the Mydoom virus was responsible for launching the largest denial of service attack in history against the website of the SCO Group. The SCO Group is a software company that was targeted by the Kaptoxa gang because of its legal disputes with the Linux community. The Mydoom virus caused the SCO Group’s website to crash and cost the company millions of dollars in damages.
In January of 2007, the Kaptoxa gang used the Mydoom virus to launch another denial of service attack, this time against the website of the German Government. The Mydoom virus caused the German Government’s website to crash and cost the German taxpayers millions of euros in damages.
In February of 2009, a German man named Sven Jaschan was arrested and charged with creating and distributing the Mydoom virus. Jaschan confessed to creating the virus and was sentenced to three years in prison.
After Jaschan’s arrest, the Mydoom virus was no longer spreading and the Kaptoxa gang’s attacks came to an end. The Mydoom virus was the most damaging computer virus of all time, but it has finally been stopped.
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