Rather than amateurs working out of their parents' basement, malware creators are often part of an underworld of criminal gang, or working directly for a foreign government or intelligence agency.

Researchers at Black Hat conference speculate that human and computer viruses could converge in the future and could interest bioterrorists Computer hackers could create malicious software that ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), have received reports of recent spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm malicious software, known as malware.

Computers around the world are threatened by a new, rapidly spreading worm that has already infected millions of personal computers. While information technology specialists are working to control the ...

Believed to be the first virus released into the wild, the Elk Cloner reflected the camp spirit of the frontier days of computing in the early '80s. It was written by 15-year-old prankster Rich ...

This week in 1988, Cornell graduate student Robert Tappan Morris unleashed his eponymous worm upon the Internet. The wave of infections grew to 10% of the entire Internet within 24 hours, causing ...

Even with Apple’s locked-down design, iPhones in 2026 are not magically immune to malicious apps, scam pop-ups, or ...

Hospital medical devices that connect to PCs, such as computerized implanted defibrillators, insulin pumps and fetal monitors, are susceptible to computer viruses. Medical equipment that are hooked up ...

A new and ongoing supply-chain attack is targeting developers on the OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio marketplaces with self-spreading malware called GlassWorm that has been installed an estimated ...