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Creeper: The World’s First Computer Virus - Exabeam

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Read about the first computer virus that preceded computer networks, called the Creeper. German mathematician John von Neumann first theorized the concept in the late 1940s. He envisioned a computer virus as an automatically self-replicating entity. But it was another 30 years before someone created one.

Creeper: The World’s First Computer Virus | Exabeam Skip to content Home > Blog > InfoSec Trends Creeper: The World’s First Computer Virus Share Jan 01, 2022 Tim Matthews 3 minutes to read Table of Contents NOTE: At Exabeam, as people who live and breathe cybersecurity, we’re naturally fascinated by its history. This is the third in a series of posts featuring information about interesting historical events in cybersecurity. The first in the series examines Operation Aurora and the series of 2010 cyberattacks by the Chinese Elderwood Group, which has ties to the People’s Liberation Army. The s

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