SSagunAug 5 · 8 min readShamoonMost malware wants something. A password. A bank account. A document. A ransom payment. Shamoon wanted something different. It was designed to cause destruction. Shamoon, also known as Disttrack, becasagunwrites.hashnode.dev
SSagunAug 5 · 7 min readStuxnetMost malware attacks computers. Some steal information. Some encrypt files. Some build botnets. But what if malware could affect something outside the computer itself? In 2010, the cybersecurity worldsagunwrites.hashnode.dev
SSagunAug 5 · 7 min readSQL SlammerJanuary 25, 2003. The Internet suddenly seemed to slow down. Networks were experiencing enormous amounts of traffic. Some systems became difficult to reach. ATMs malfunctioned. Airline systems were disagunwrites.hashnode.dev
SSagunAug 5 · 6 min readCode RedIn July 2001, something strange began happening across the Internet. Web servers were being compromised at an alarming rate. Some websites were defaced. Networks were experiencing unexpected traffic. sagunwrites.hashnode.dev
SSagunAug 5 · 7 min readILOVEYOUOn May 4, 2000, millions of people around the world opened their email and saw a message with an unusually personal subject: ILOVEYOU For many recipients, it looked like a message from someone they knsagunwrites.hashnode.dev
SSagunAug 5 · 7 min readTrickBotSome malware is designed to perform one job. TrickBot wasn't like that. It began primarily as a banking trojan, but over time it evolved into a sophisticated modular malware platform capable of supporsagunwrites.hashnode.dev
SSagunAug 5 · 7 min readEmotetSome malware families are built for one purpose. Steal passwords. Encrypt files. Destroy systems. Emotet was different. It began as a banking trojan. Over time, it evolved into something much more powsagunwrites.hashnode.dev
SSagunAug 5 · 8 min readMiraiWhat if thousands of devices connected to the Internet suddenly stopped being ordinary devices? What if they became part of a massive network controlled by someone else? That is essentially what happesagunwrites.hashnode.dev
SSagunAug 5 · 8 min readNotPetyaOn June 27, 2017, organizations in Ukraine began experiencing a major cyberattack. Computers stopped working. Business operations were interrupted. Government agencies were affected. Then the attack msagunwrites.hashnode.dev
SSagunAug 5 · 7 min readWannaCryOn May 12, 2017, something unusual began happening across the Internet. Computers in organizations around the world suddenly displayed a ransom demand. Files were becoming inaccessible. Businesses wersagunwrites.hashnode.dev