An anti-virus program registering every executable file on the computer as infected indicates the computer may be under attack by a virus. According to PC Magazine, a virus attaches copies of itself ...

According to Lordian Mosuela, a researcher with Israel's Commtouch, the Right-to-left-override (RLO) unicode control character allows hackers to hide executable code as other types of file names. The ...

Computer security experts have identified a complicated new virus, called Magistr, which poses a low-to-medium threat to users of Microsoft Windows. The virus - officially called W32.MAGISTR.A - ...

The official Xubuntu website was compromised for a short time by attackers who offered users a dangerous ZIP file disguised ...

Microsoft has released Sysmon 14 with a new 'FileBlockExecutable' option that lets you block the creation of malicious executables, such as EXE, DLL, and SYS files, for better protection against ...

Update 10/15/16: I have updated the article below to address that this ransomware is not continuously monitoring for files. When the ransomware runs it will target the %Desktop% first and then encrypt ...

The file, bfsvc.exe is the Windows operating system file for the Boot File Servicing Utility. It’s vital to your computer’s functioning, but only if it’s the legitimate bfsvc.exe. I added the above ...

A variant of the Dridex banking malware is using macOS to spread to others, by using email attachments that look like regular documents. Security researchers at Trend Micro said on Thursday that the ...

The Antimalware Service Executable is a process you might see pop-up in Task Manager’s task list now and again, beavering away at … something. While it’s not always obvious what it’s up to, and the ...

Taskhostw.exe is a Windows operating system file. The main function of taskhostw.exe is to start the Windows Services based on DLLs whenever the computer boots up. It is a host for processes that are ...