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REvil was responsible for some of the most high-profile ransomware attacks in the past 3 years.  References: [46]  | Kaspersky Team, "What is WannaCry ransomware?," 2018. [Online]. Available: https://usa.kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/ransomware-wannacry. [47]  | A. Kochovski, "Ransomware Statistics, Trends and Facts for 2022 and Beyond," 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.cloudwards.net/ransomware-statistics/. [Accessed 2022]. [48]  | WebTitan Team, "How Much Money Did WannaCry Make?," 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.webtitan.com/blog/how-much-money-did ..read more

Did you know that the world's largest botnet was created because of Minecraft? References: [35]  | H. Khan, "Minecraft Possibly The Most Successful Video Game Franchise Of All Time," Exputer, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://exputer.com/news/industry/minecraft-most-successful-franchise/. [36]  | B. K. Jena, "What Is a Botnet, Its Architecture and How Does It Work?," 11 Oct 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/cyber-security-tutorial/what-is-a-botnet. [37]  | B. Krebs, "Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?," 18 Jan 2017. [Online]. Available: h ..read more

In 1988, Robert Morris, a Cornell Ph.D student, was curious about how big the Internet was.  Robert Morris wrote a program that would measure the bounds of a network and automatically spread to other computers and networks.  He had other motives, such as to demonstrate how insecure many computer networks were at the time.  To conceal his activity, he hacked into the MIT network and released his worm.  He created the very first known malware in the world to measure the size of the Internet. This malware was dubbed “The Morris Worm.”   References: Hypr, “What is the Mo ..read more