Evolution of Malware

1. Logic Bombs
2. Backdoors/Trapdoors
3. Creeper/Reeper
   1. Bob Thomas, BBN
   2. ARPANET
   3. Air Traffic Control (plane handoff)
   4. Creeper "Catch me if you can"
   5. Reeper to kill Creeper
4. Boot Sector Viruses
   1. FIRST: Elk Cloner
      1. Richard Skrenta - 9th grade
      2. Pittsuburgh PA
      3. Apple II
5. The Morris Internet Worm of 1988
   1. First true worm to use the Internet for propagation
   2. Exploited known Unix vulnerabilities
   3. Spread to 60,000+ computers
   4. Caused Unix computers everywhere to crash
   5. 'Invisible' processes

 

 

 

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