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The History of Malware: A Primer on the Evolution of Cyber Threats

IBM Big Data Hub

1966: Theoretical malware As the very first modern computers were being built, pioneering mathematician and Manhattan Project contributor John von Neumann was developing the concept of a program that could reproduce and spread itself throughout a system. Instead, here’s a look at a few infamous moments in the evolution of malware.