When a daily sports paper compares a national soccer crisis with the spread of an Internet worm, you know that the worm has had an enormous impact on everyday life. This was the case with W32/Mydoom when it first made an appearance in early 2004.
Incredibly, despite its advanced years, Mydoom is still showing up in emails 15 years after it was first reported.
Always interesting to scan an email attachment and to find out it is… MyDoom
https://t.co/h8VDmlM54W
MyDoom turns 15 later this month
https://t.co/Lq2UXrE4iP
— Martijn Grooten (@martijn_grooten)
January 11, 2019
This Throwback Thursday we look back at an analysis written by researcher Gabor Szappanos in March 2004, in which he tracked the rise of Mydoom. You can read the article in
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