Blaring security alerts that urge you to call a number or download a scanner are bogus, and you can shut them up easily.

IntroductionIn the first half of 2026, there were 123 cases of ransomware damage in Japan, the highest number for a six-month ...

A weekday night. After returning home, you sit at your desk to focus on learning or a side hustle to increase your market ...

But what if the real risk is that AI could entirely wipe out humanity? According to Geoffrey Hinton—a pioneer often dubbed one of the godfathers of AI—this scenario is far from improbable. In an ...

I’m not worried yet about Anthropic’s predictions of AI-driven botnets, formed by taking over our smart home appliances.

The self-replicating AI botnet does not issue a substantially new kind of threat—at least for now. But sometimes a ...

Researchers explored how AI could spread through everyday gadgets. But cybersecurity experts have seen these tricks before ...

A new Windows malware loader called AvisLoader uses encrypted peer-to-peer communications to make command-and-control ...

Some viruses appear to vanish when outbreaks dissipate, only to emerge again. Scientists don’t always know which animals they lurk in — and how to stop them from spilling back over. By David Quammen ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month raised its benchmark for levels of the Covid virus in wastewater, adjusting a key metric for assessing the disease’s transmission. As a result ...

Attackers are using ChatGPT, Google Sites, and a fake Cloudflare check to make a malware campaign look far more convincing.