Discover the types of malware in 2025, from backdoors to ransomware, and learn which families hackers use most in real-world attacks.

Here, biology kind of takes over. If the phage genome that the AI model generated is legit, the proteins will start to self-assemble into a phage. You’ll know it’s worked when that phage goes on to ...

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the Pasteur Institute and the University of Lorraine, France, have uncovered some of the inner workings of a recently discovered bacterial immune system ...

Some bacterial-infecting viruses use ‘sponges’ to mop up defence molecules, but bacteria can fight back by responding when a sponge captures decoy molecules. Read the paper: A miniature CRISPR–Cas10 ...

The attackers used process hollowing against RegAsm.exe, patched Windows defenses such as AMSI and ETW and unpacked further payloads until the final DLL was revealed as PureRAT. This trojan provides ...

Cofense research sees cybercriminals spoof legal firms with AI tools, spreading malware that steals crypto and may evolve into ransomware.