[TheBill]

30 years ago there was ransomware in the wild:

1989 -Popp/ AIDS trojan 2005 - GPCoder trojan 2017 - notpetya (AKA the moller maersk hack) https://actzero.ai/resources/white-paper/the-rise-of-ransomw...

[sebastien_bois]

I was referring more to general attacks, the type that would have seemed too far-fetched decade(s) ago.

[candiodari]

The first ever computer virus (arguably) was “brain”, arguably ransomware:

https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-malware-when-were-com...

Needless to say, it predated cryptocurrency by decades and it’s creators are at the very least millionaires.

[tharne]

Amazing how quickly people forget the past.