made a LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs necklace
Back in 2000, a guy from the Philippines basically broke the internet by sending an email titled « ILOVEYOU », people clicked the attachment thinking it was a love letter, and it instantly wiped their files and forwarded itself to everyone in their contacts.
In 10 days, 50 million machines were down, governments and the CIA included, causing nearly $10 billion in damages.
It was the first time a virus spread this fast by playing on human psychology rather than just exploiting tech, pretty much the blueprint for every phishing attack we see today.
