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A Laptop Infected With Six of the World’s Most Dangerous Computer Viruses Is Up for Auction. The Bid Is Now More Than $1.2 Million

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Earlier this year, a cybersecurity firm commissioned online artist Guo O Dong to take a more than 10-year-old laptop and infect it with six of the most malicious computer viruses in the world. Now, the artwork, titled The Persistence of Chaos, is up for auction online, and several hundred bids have already been logged. The current going price for the most dangerous laptop in the world? More than $1.2 million. Sign up for our daily newsletter. Sponsored by a company called Deep Instinct, the project cost over $10,000 to realize. Much of that went to ensuring that the laptop, a 2008 Samsung Blue Netbook, was safely firewalled from other computers. In technical terms, the device is air-gapped, meaning that it’s isolated from unsecured networks like the internet so that the malware can’t spread. It’s even currently quarantined in a solitary housing unit in New York. The artist brought in engineers to install the six malware viruses, which sound like they’re named after drinks at a shady un

Auctions A Laptop Infected With Six of the World’s Most Dangerous Computer Viruses Is Up for Auction. The Bid Is Now More Than $1.2 Million The malware was installed by an artist on a Samsung notebook from 2008. Guo O Dong, “The Persistence of Chaos” (2019). Courtesy of the artist and Deep Instinct. Taylor Dafoe May 22, 2019 Share Share This Article Earlier this year, a cybersecurity firm commissioned online artist Guo O Dong to take a more than 10-year-old laptop and infect it with six of the most malicious computer viruses in the world. Now, the artwork, titled The Persistence of Chaos , is

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