A new strain of MacOS malware disguises itself as a Windows executable file to evade detection and embed itself on a system. But the malware authors aren't exactly in the cross-platform avant-garde: ...

The Cortana.exe Miner is a Trojan that uses your computer to mine for the Monero digital currency without your permission. It is not known how this particular miner Trojan is being installed, but it ...

The Antimalware Service Executable is a program that runs in the background on your Windows 10/11 PC to protect the computer from viruses and other threats. Sometimes it starts to consume too much ...

The Updatechecker.exe Trojan is a package of malware programs that include the Taskhostw.exe miner and an adware component that displays advertisements every 60 minutes. When installed, ...

Microsoft Threat Intelligence analyzed a cryptocurrency clipper campaign that combines clipboard theft, wallet replacement, ...

Executable compression, a.k.a. "packing,” is a means of compressing an executable file and combining the compressed data with decompression code into a single executable. Throughout the years, ...

My new favorite Windows app made my PC safer and more reliable - and it's free ...

The identity thieves behind the Zeus malware attacks are now using the "/launch" command feature in Adobe Reader to launch malicious attacks without exploiting a vulnerability in the software. Yes, ...

Researchers warn that the UEFI firmware in many motherboards made by PC hardware manufacturer Gigabyte injects executable code inside the Windows kernel in an unsafe way that can be abused by ...