#good thing I have no interest in ransomware 😂

[sweetest-honeybee]

oh jeez, hope you get well soon <33

idk how much of a distraction this will be, but i've been looking stuff up for my school assignments. (sorry if this is boring aldjfsl)

did you know, that the first ransomware showed up in 1989? it was the first trojan that encrypts things and demands payment in order to decrypt it. it was distributed on floppy disks and it was actually not that harmful, since it only decrpyts the names of the files.

now though, it's gotten a lot more dangerous. because of the rise of bitcoin = anonymous payment systems, things like "ransomware as a service" crop up, where you can pay people to make you a ransomware. it's more accessible, and also way easier to spread especially with the internet, and they're even more dangerous cause most of them lay dormant for years before actually destroying your systems. some of them can even scout around to see what other devices it can infect, how it can spread and whatnot. some can be controlled remotely through C2 servers (command and control servers).

saldfjsdafdl i think that's about all i remember. i gtg now, hope you'll feel better soon :D

That’s not terrifying at all, thank you for the facts :D