The attack, which turned some corporate Web sites into points of digital infection, was halted Friday when Internet engineers managed to shut down a Russian server that had been the source of ...

Antivirus companies are reporting a high incidence of a new virus, which they say is spreading fast by using every trick in the book -- including downloading itself from Web pages by exploiting a ...

A mysterious Internet virus being spread Friday by hundreds and possibly thousands of infected Web sites may be aimed at stealing credit card and other valuable information, security experts ...

A new Android malware posing as an antivirus tool software created by Russia's Federal Security Services agency (FSB) is ...

Web surfers are no longer playing Russian roulette each time they visit a Web site, security researchers say, now that a far-reaching Internet attack has been disarmed. The attack, which had ...

The Web site for Indian antivirus vendor AvSoft Technologies has been hacked and is being used to install malicious software on visitors’ computers, security researchers said Thursday. The ...

Computer users already anxious about viruses and identity theft have new reason to worry: Hackers have found a way to lock up the electronic documents on your computer and then demand $200 over ...

By erasing and reprogramming the ability of a virus to target diseased cells, a team of Boston College researchers has engineered a tougher, more selective version of the virus capable of attacking ...