In History
Year 2004
- Written by Sven Jaschan - 17 years old German student - Arrested at age of 18 in 2004 - $250,000 bounty was posted for the creator of this virus - Jaschan was released from the sentence as he was a minor at the time he wrote the malware
Year 2013
- Attacked more than 250,000 machines and encrypted the files. - Impacted more than 5,000 companies - average recovery cost of one business entity was ~ $133,000
Year 2003
- Impacted 200,000 computers - SQL Slammer cased DDoS attack on several internet hosts - The slammer hits many banks in U.S. and Canada and causes many ATMs down. - Customers of Toronto's Imperial Bank of Commerce was not able to access funds for many days
Year 2001
- This worm penetrated 975,000 computers - Ran from computer memory, with no trace on a hard disk or other storage - Attacked U.S. White House's website www.whitehouse.gov - White House had to change its IP address to defend against Code Red. -
Year 2007
- Zeus virus was an online theft tool - Was responsible for 44% of all banking malware attacks, 88% breaches of all Fortune 500 companies, 2,500 organizations, and 76,000 computers across 196 countries - Started with multiple botnets, originating from Eastern Europe to transferring money in secret accounts. - More than 100 members of this virus group were arrested in 2010, mostly from US.
Year 2017
- Ransomware that bleeds the world - Spread across 150 countries, caused massive production losses - Who didn't pay the ransom were forced to rebuild systems from scratch - This malware spread like wildfire and in no time, impacted more than 200,000 computers worldwide. - 22 year security researcher in UK found the way to turn it off.
Year 2000
- Infected 10 million PCs across the world - Sending bogus "Love Letter" as a text file - Philippines student Onel de Guzman created this virus to steal password to access online services for free
Year 2001
- Infected more than 7 million PCs across the world - Sending fake emails from spoofed senders and deactivating other viruses. - Developer of this virus is still unknown.
Year 2003
- Infected more than 10 million PCs across the world - Spread by email attachment. - Disturbed Air Canada and impacted countless companies across the globe. - The developer of this virus was never caught.
Year 2004
- Spread by mass emailing - at one time 25% of all emails across the globe were sending Mydoom Virus - This virus was causing DDoS attacks and was resulting in the shutdown of the website - Reward of $250,000 was offered to catch the creator - The creator of the virus was never caught