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

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

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Advances in biotechnology and AI could allow bad actors to create deadly pathogens with little scientific knowledge. A modified virus, such as the H5N1 avian flu, could be significantly more lethal ...

An estimated 38 trillion bacteria live in the human body—and only a small fraction are harmful to our health. However, the harmful ones can cause serious illness, especially when they develop ...

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 ...

Half of our genome is made of transposons — snips of DNA that can move and copy themselves. But they’re more than parasites or genetic junk. You might imagine that the DNA in your cells has a simple ...

Earlier this month, the AI company Anthropic detailed a handful of scenarios where potentially bad actors were using its LLM Claude to possibly research and build bioweapons. While experts debate the ...

Seven agencies from four countries published a joint advisory on September 18, 2026, and it carries a finding that matters to anyone who holds their own keys: a North Korean threat group has used fake ...

Oxford University researchers have captured the step-by-step assembly of individual virus-like particles, revealing how simple molecular interactions can reliably build these complex biological ...