Most people never see malware—but after decades of testing it, I can show you exactly what it looks like.

It’s no secret that the sophistication and frequency of cyberattacks have been growing steadily for the last few years, in part due to AI opening the doors to even low-skilled threat actors to launch ...

Fortunately, as online threats become ever more sophisticated, so do Internet users' means of defense. As a PR Newswire press release put it in February 2026, "according to industry consultancy firm ...

As a consultant, I’m occasionally called on to remove malicious software (malware) from infected Windows computers. A recent case offered a stark example of something well known to techies, no ...

We go online every day to check our email, pay bills, and talk with friends. At the same time, in this digital world not only legitimate services but also hidden predators are watching our every step.

Emsisoft Anti-Malware touts itself as being “a complete defense system against malware, ransomware, phishing, and more.” One independent lab certifies its business edition, and it scored high in our ...

The anti-malware people continue to come up with signatures for both old and new malware programs in all their various polymorphic, packed, encrypted, obfuscated “glory.” As you might guess, this ...

Server-side polymorphism is a challenging problem for anti-malware software vendors. Much of today’s malware, such as the Storm worm, creates tens of thousands of variants each month, a development ...