Is Australia a sitting duck for ransomware attacks? Yes, and the danger has been growing for 30 years
Paul Haskell‐Dowland, Andrew J. Woodward · 2021
The first ransomware attack, in 1988, was a crude effort involving virus-laden floppy disks. But in the decades since, the sophistication of malware, and the money reaped by criminals, has skyrocketed.