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

After 33 years, Bernardo Quintero decided it was time to find the person who changed his life — the anonymous programmer who created a computer virus that had infected his university decades earlier.

In a new study, we and an international team of scientists examined the behavior of marine viruses in a large band of ...

Newly published interdisciplinary research led by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and University of Maryland shows ...

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it disrupted RedVDS, a massive cybercrime platform linked to at least $40 million in ...

AI can now create genome viruses in laboratories and redesign toxins to evade controls, raising biosafety alert and rise of ...

Even signed, virus-free programs can secretly hack your computer through a tactic called DLL hijacking. Hackers slip in ...

According to recent CDC monitoring (updated December 2025), Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections are elevated in parts of the U.S. This bacterium often causes a mild respiratory illness known as “walking ...

Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

Over 300,000 new types of ransomware and other malicious software are discovered daily, according to the IT security research institute AV-TEST. Computer viruses can slow your devices, create a slew ...

People sick with the flu might want to consider staying home for the holidays. That’s what some emergency doctors are suggesting as an outbreak of respiratory viruses such as influenza and COVID-19 ...

Lurking in the vast expanse of the ocean and buried deep in the Siberian permafrost, there are giants—not blue whales and mammoths, but giant viruses.