German antivirus testing firm AV-Test has identified 139 samples of malware that seem to be early attempts at exploiting the Meltdown and Spectre CPU bugs. "So far, the AV-Test Institute discovered ...

Last November, a systems engineer at a large company was evaluating security software products when he discovered something suspicious. One of the vendors had provided a set of malware samples to test ...

Malware creators have already started testing a proof-of-concept exploit targeting a new Microsoft Windows Installer zero-day publicly disclosed by security researcher Abdelhamid Naceri over the ...

Google this afternoon alerted Chromium developers about the possibility that they were exposed to malware used for testing due to an internal “oversight.” The open-source nature of Chromium means that ...

Document-based macro malware flies under the security radar by first detecting existing documents on PC. Researchers have found a new strain of document-based macro malware that evades discovery by ...

The U.S. Military plays an increasingly vital role in the prevention, detection, and response to online threats. It's a very big job, and one U.S. Cyber Command knows it can do better with help from ...

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic raging all over the globe, some malware authors have developed malware that destroys infected systems, either by wiping files or rewriting a computer's master ...