The attack, called AIDS Trojan, was done by Popp handing out 20,000 infected disks to attendees of the World Health Organization's AIDS conference
The first ransomware attack was written by Joseph Popp in 1989 and used to target the healthcare industry. 'The same study found from a single data capture that about 80% of traffic to onion services was directed to services which did offer illegal porn, abuse images and/or child sex abuse material,' researchers from the Australian National University penned in The Conversation. It uses numerous layers of security and encryption to render users anonymous online.Ī study estimated that there are around 2.6million Tor daily users. Tor - short for The Onion Router - is a seething matrix of encrypted websites that allows users to surf beneath the everyday internet with complete anonymity. 'They look for vulnerability in kids when grooming them for things like running drugs along county lines, for exploitation in pedophile rings or recruitment by terrorist and extremist groups.'Ī few platforms offer access to the dark web, including i2p, FreeNet and Tor. Philip Ingram, a retired colonel in military intelligence in the UK, said last year: ‘The dark web is used increasingly by serious and organized criminals for a variety of purposes. While the hacker did not touch on those illegal activities, he is worried 'about major impacts to financial markets or potential impacts to things like electricity production facilities.'
A recent report found the most sought-after content was child pornography, followed by guns and drugs. The dark web is a place where one activity is untraceable. Speaking anonymously to Vice, an unethical 'black hat' turned 'white hat' hacker bound by a moral code explained how bad actors use ransomware for large payouts or 'to just see the world burn'
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