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How Ben's Twitter Got Hacked on Breach of the Week #2

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Is This Really a Ransomware Threat?

i think what's interesting is that we've kind of seen this whole eco system evolve, right? Like, like, back in the early days, you predominantly had people that were hacking into systems and doing it mostly to brag for fun. By early nineties, a, like, fast forward, right? We had the emergence of sort of european focus banking fraud actors write the wriding malware trojans. The zeus trojan, for example, on its own, probably a fortune 500 company, just with the amount of fraud that they were able to commit in a year. And we're also seeing it impact individualsand essentially, like it's, it's actually

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