From floppy disks to Claude Mythos, how ransomware grew into a multibillion‑dollar industry

When evolutionary biologist Joseph Popp coded the first documented piece of ransomware in 1989, he had little idea it would become a major criminal business model capable of bringing economies to their knees.


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