In 2010, a computer worm called Stuxnet sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program. It wasn’t ordinary malware—it was the world’s first true cyberweapon, capable of crippling nations.

It's being called the worst computer worm of the year -- a fast-spreading Internet threat that looks like an official e-mail from the CIA or FBI but can leave your computer wide open to intruders. The ...

Recently a team of inspectors from the United Nations Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) found a tiny amount of highly enriched uranium at one of Iran’s nuclear facilities. Most probably, there was more than ...

Generative AI models aren't immune to viruses. A new worm can target AI-powered assistants and break some of Gemini and ChatGPT's security features, research reveals. A trio of researchers have ...

Computer security experts said yesterday that new appearances of "Bagle," the latest computer worm to circulate via the Internet, appear to be on the wane. Though early reports had some predicting the ...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that a juvenile had been arrested in connection with the release of a computer worm that spread in the same way as the MSBlast worm. The suspect is ...

In a bold move, a group of hackers launched a successful attack on the Web server of Russian computer security company Kaspersky Labs Ltd., managing to implant and distribute a copy of the recently ...

Sven Jaschan, 19, was found guilty of computer sabotage and illegally altering data, said Katharina Kruetzfeld, a spokeswoman for the court in the northwestern town of Verden. He was given a suspended ...

Around the world this week, digital worms have been invading computers at hundreds of thousands of offices and homes. The so-called "Blaster" worm, and variations of it, bog down networks as they ...