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The Story Of Conti Ransomware – Origins and Evolution of the RaaS Model (Episode 1)

Ransomware, a malware designed to encrypt data making them restorable only with the use of a private key. Relatively simple math is all that threat actors out there needs to disrupt networks around the globe, once lock out you can get your plain data back just in one way : cripto payment. The real first Ransomware ever discovered was made by Joseph L. Popp Jr. with his malware called AIDS. Isolated in 1989, the program was stored inside a Floppy Disk with the label “AIDS Information Introductory”, sent in the email of 20,000 of WHO conference in Stockholm. Once opened the C: