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The Very First Ransomeware Attack: The AIDS Trojan

Oct 29, 2026 6:13

The Harvard Biologist Who Invented RansomwareTHE AIDS TROJAN : The strange story of the world’s first ransomware attack

In 1989, a Harvard biologist who studied baboons wrote the first ransomware and mailed it out on 20,000 floppy disks.

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