In cybersecurity terms, the Trojan horse is nothing new. While the name derives from Greek mythology – the story of a wooden horse said to have helped the Greeks enter Troy and win the Trojan war – of ...

A new kind of malware circulating on the Internet freezes a computer and then asks for a ransom paid through Western Union Holdings Inc.’s money-transfer service. A sample of the Trojan horse virus ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new form of computer hacking attack called a Remote Access Trojan hack, or a RAT, cost one suburban woman more than $9,000 before she was able to recover the money. "The hackers are ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zimperium, the only mobile security platform purpose-built for enterprise environments, today published new research detailing the increasing risk financial institutions and ...

More Google Play Store apps have been discovered to contain malware, including Trojan, according to a Kaspersky malware analyst. If you have them downloaded to your phone right, it is best that you ...

Despite the many oncolytic viruses in clinical trials as treatments for cancer, most of them suffer from a debilitating flaw. “The unprotected oncolytic viruses used in the past were quickly ...

Virus writers, forever in search of opportunities to distribute their malicious code, are exploiting interest in the avian flu by circulating an e-mail with an attachment that contains information ...

An international team led by researchers at the University of Toronto has found a new RNA virus that they believe is hitching a ride with a common human parasite. The virus, called Apocryptovirus ...

Two common respiratory viruses can fuse to form a hybrid virus capable of evading the human immune system and infecting lung cells. Although the antibodies still stuck to influenza proteins on the ...