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Jennifer Leggette and Michael Tyler. Four Phases : 1.Experiments 2.Pranks 3.Malicious/For Profit 4.Future of Malware.

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1 Jennifer Leggette and Michael Tyler

2 Four Phases : 1.Experiments 2.Pranks 3.Malicious/For Profit 4.Future of Malware

3 Purpose: benign or caused accidental damage, mostly wanted to spread Why: Programmers wanted to gain experience Example: Creeper

4 Originated in the early 1970’s in Cambridge, Massachusetts Spread through ARPAnet Displayed: I’M THE CREEPER: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

5 Some were harmless while others were highly damaging First malware prank: Elk Cloner, written by a high school student which the purpose was to display a poem on the screen once in every 50 boot ups.

6 July 2001 Exploited buffer overflow Defaced websites and launched denial of service attacks Affected site read: “HELLO! Welcome to http://www.worm.com! Hacked by Chinese!”http://www.worm.com

7 Microsoft Office, C source and C++ source files

8 Adware Display advertisements Spyware Gain information about the user without their knowledge Ransomware Prevents user from using system as normal

9 Fake antivirus software

10 Espionage Cyberwarfare New Platforms

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