Most dangerous computer viruses: Computer virus is more than just wiping up the information in your hard drive. Computer virus had caused $8.5 billion of consumer losses in 2008 alone. If you think that you are so intelligent not to fall for computer virus, then, how will you react if the computer virus had used famous tennis star Anna Kournikova to trap its victims?
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The Anna Kournikova virus was so notorious that it had paralyzed thousands of servers all over the world but it did not even make it our list as other computer virus were deemed more damaging.
10. Stuxnet (2010)
Stuxnet, a computer worm was discovered in July 2010 and unlike other worms, this worm specifically targets computers, which run critical infrastructure like water treatment, oil pipelines, gas pipelines and power grid.
According to Sean McGurk, head of Cybersecurity Center at Department of Homeland Security, this worm can enter any system and steal any formula needed to manufacture something. Gurk called Stuxnet as a “ game changer”.
There was really no specific facility in which the worm was used to attack however, Symantec, a popular security firm had said that the nuclear plants of Iran was the target of the worm.
Symantec had found out that there were 44,000 Stuxnet infections around the world. In which 1,600 were from the United States but 60% of the infections were found in Iran.
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