A multi-platform Python-based malware targeting Windows and Linux devices has now been upgraded to worm its way into Internet-exposed VMware vCenter servers unpatched against a remote code execution ...

The newly discovered malware uses GitHub and Pastebin to house component code, and harbors 12 different initial attack vectors. Researchers have uncovered a new worm targeting Linux based x86 servers, ...

The Pro-Ocean cryptojacking malware now comes with the ability to spread like a worm, as well as harboring new detection-evasion tactics. Researchers have identified an updated malware variant used by ...

IMlogic Threat Center, a global consortium providing threat detection and protection for instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, issued its first quarterly report on the rise of IM ...

You’d think keeping things secure would be easy, with artificial intelligence getting sharper every day. I mean, if it can crank out intricate code in no time, fending off cyber crooks should be a ...

A computer scientist at Washington University in St. Louis has developed technology to stop malicious software – malware – such as viruses and worms long before it even has a chance to reach computers ...

The first real computer virus, Creeper was released “in lab” in 1971 by an employee of a company working on building ARPANET, the Internet’s ancestor, according to Guillaume Lovet, Senior Director, ...

Viruses and the other damaging software and dirty tricks that get lumped under the “malware” umbrella (malicious software intended to harm your computer) have been with us almost as long as there have ...