First and foremost, I don't recommend doing this yourself. I created an isolated virtual machine and used a firewall to ...

Understanding the threat posed to industrial control systems (ICSs) by malware is difficult. It requires knowledge of proper ICS functionality in order to identify illegitimate software. One ...

We are either at the dawn of AI-driven malware that rewrites itself on the fly, or we are seeing vendors and threat actors exaggerate its capabilities. Recent Google and MIT Sloan reports reignited ...

Google’s Android has overtaken Java Micro Edition as the most attacked mobile platform, McAfee said in its latest quarterly threat report. Out of about 1,200 mobile malware samples that McAfee Labs ...

When one thinks of a museum, the first thought that pops-up into one's head are artifacts that will drift one to a bygone era. Museums that cater to oddities are also not uncommon, and now joining the ...

TikTok has become one of the most powerful engines for viral trends, and attackers are quietly riding that wave to slip malware onto phones and laptops. Instead of relying on clumsy spam emails, they ...

I’m lucky enough to be sent interesting new malware examples and hacker exploits to examine and figure out. For the most part, senders look to me for clues about how the program works and what it does ...

You can’t see some malware until it’s too late. Sophisticated attacks arrive in pieces, each seemingly benign. Once these advanced attacks reassemble, the target is already compromised. FireEye takes ...

Hardly a week goes by when I don’t hear from some malware researcher or reader who’s discovered what appears to be a new sample of malicious software or nasty link that invokes this author’s name or ...

Malware is shorthand for malicious software. It is software developed by cyber attackers with the intention of gaining access or causing damage to a computer or network, often while the victim remains ...