Before you proceed, you should know one thing. If you have a 3rd-party security software, these suggestions may help. But if Windows Defender is the only security software installed on your computer, ...

New Kaspersky Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) research into the rapidly growing ransomware group known as The Gentlemen has showed that the attackers have evolved their tactics through new ...

Bitdefender security researchers have discovered that attackers continue to exploit Microsoft HTML Application Host (MSHTA), a legacy utility available by default on Windows systems that can execute ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Does your Windows PC feel slow, freeze during simple tasks, and show RAM usage spiking close to 100% in Task Manager? While heavy RAM usage by processes ...

Dubbed Lotus Wiper, the malware targets recovery mechanisms, overwrites drives, and systematically deletes files. A threat actor has used a new wiper malware in recent attacks against the energy and ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Microsoft has warned organizations about ongoing OAuth abuse scams that use phishing emails and URL redirects to infect victims' machines with malware and take over their devices. The phishing ...

YouTube is arguably the most popular and most visited platform for entertainment, education and tutorials. There's a video for everything on YouTube, whether you want to learn how to cook, ride a bike ...

The official Xubuntu website was compromised over the weekend (18/19 October 2025) briefly serving up Windows malware to users trying to download the distro. Users who visited the Xubuntu website over ...

Every file your organization touches is a potential threat in disguise. Behind the spreadsheets, contracts, and reports that keep business running, cybercriminals see opportunity. They weaponize the ...