![]() “WannaCry … caused the the equivalent of $100 million in damages and led to the cancellation of tens of thousands of doctors’ appointments,” the artist said. BlackEnergy was used in a cyberattack that prompted a large-scale blackout in Ukraine in December 2015. DarkTequila costed millions in damages across many users.īlackEnergy 2 uses sophisticated rootkit/process-injection techniques, robust encryption, and a modular architecture known as a “dropper”. The attack affected 200,000+ computers across 150 countries, and caused the NHS $100M in damages with further totals accumulating close to $4B.Ī sophisticated and evasive piece of malware that targeted users mainly in Latin America, DarkTequila stole bank credentials and corporate data even while offline. WannaCry was an extremely virulent ransomware cryptoworm that also set up backdoors on systems. This piece of malware caused $37B in damages and affected hundreds of thousands of PCs. This piece of malware could copy files, email itself to others, and could damage computer software/hardware. SoBig was a worm and trojan that circulated through emails as viral spam. ![]() It’s projected that this virus caused $38B in damages. MyDoom, potentially commissioned by Russian e-mail spammers, was one of the fastest spreading worms. ![]() The ILOVEYOU virus, distributed via email and file sharing, affected 500,000+ systems and caused $15B in damages total, with $5.5B in damages being caused in the first week. ![]() The laptop is a 10.2-inch Samsung NC10-14GB from 2008 and contains six viruses on its local hard drive: “Weaponized viruses that affect power grids or public infrastructure can cause direct harm.” “We have this fantasy that things that happen in computers can’t actually affect us, but this is absurd,” Dong said to The Verge. ![]() The “artwork” is a creation by Guo O Dong, who calls the piece “The Persistence of Chaos.” The Verge spoke with Dong to gather information and context behind the piece essentially, the artist wanted to capture these viruses in the laptop and chose them for the effects they’ve had in the past both digitally and physically. ![]()
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