Going global: worldwide attacks

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Going global: worldwide attacks
« on: July 09, 2015, 09:00:11 PM »
When the mid-1990s hit, viruses went international as the first Microsoft Word-based virus using macro commands spread all over the world. In 1998, hackers took control of more than 500 government, military, and private computer systems with the “Solar Sunrise” attacks. Two years later, other hackers were able to crash Amazon, Yahoo and eBay’s websites. In 2001, the Code Red worm ended up causing $2 billion in damage by infecting Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 server software. The large-scale attacks continued into 2006, when anywhere from 469,000 to one million computers were infected with the Nyxem virus.
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Re: Going global: worldwide attacks
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2018, 08:08:04 PM »
Informative Post. Thank you.