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Top 10 Most-Destructive Computer Viruses

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Conficker Virus (2009)In 2009, a new computer worm crawled its way into millions of Windows-based PCs around the world, creating a massive botnet army of remotely controlled computers capable of stealing financial data and other information. The attacks were traced back to China.

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The Hacker Mind: Follow The Rabbit

ForAllSecure

And I remember calling Symantec and reporting a serious bug in an early version of their password manager. Their Operating System type was set to windows. This was strange since they were obviously running linux commands in a linux terminal so why is it set to windows? Vamosi: That’s how I beta test things.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

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Then we've seen all these big waves after that banking Trojans, credit card keyloggers botnet building have clearly for the last eight years now, Ransom ransomware in various different incarnate incarnations has been the big moneymaker. For example, in Finland, we've seen the largest banks and the Ministry of Defense getting attacked.