Largest viral-protein library gives researchers new way to probe emerging pathogens

To prevent viruses from sickening or killing us—whether it's an individual case of hepatitis B or a COVID pandemic—it's ...
Microsoft

GigaWiper: Anatomy of a destructive backdoor assembled from multiple malware

GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational ...
The Hacker News

New GigaWiper Windows Backdoor Bundles Disk Wiping, Fake Ransomware, and Spyware

Microsoft details GigaWiper, a Windows backdoor that bundles disk wiping, fake ransomware, and remote control into one ...
Tech Times

Defender Zero-Day Patched 29 Days After Public Exploit Exposed Millions of PCs

Windows Defender zero-day CVE-2026-50656 — known as RoguePlanet — has been patched by Microsoft 29 days after researcher ...
The Hacker News

Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models

University of Toronto researchers have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven computer worm that uses a locally hosted open-weight large language model to reason its way through a network, ...
PNAS

BIK polymorphism and proteasome regulation unveil host risk factor for severe influenza

We identify Bcl-2-interacting killer (BIK) as a critical host factor for influenza A virus (IAV) replication, revealing an IAV–BIK–β5 axis. This axis demonstrates how the viral nucleoprotein ...
IEEE

Advanced Malware Detection Methods for Polymorphic Virus Identification

Abstract: Polymorphic viruses pose a significant challenge to traditional malware detection methods due to their ability to modify their code structure with each infection, effectively evading ...
Europe PMC

Unique Nucleotide Polymorphism of African Swine Fever Virus Circulating in East Asia and Central Russia.

The lack of data on the whole-genome analysis of genotype II African swine fever virus (ASFV) isolates significantly hinders our understanding of its molecular evolution, and as a result, the range of ...
IEEE

Enhancing Malicious Code Detection With Boosted N-Gram Analysis and Efficient Feature Selection

Abstract: A fundamental challenge in virology research lies in effectively detecting malicious code. N-gram analysis has become a cornerstone technique, but selecting the most informative features, ...