The multi-stage attack uses encrypted shellcode, steganography, and reflective DLL loads to deploy XWorm without leaving ...

Huntress analysts discovered a previously unseen ransomware variant, Obscura, spreading from a victim company's domain controller. Learn how Obscura works—and what it means for defenders—in this ...

Windows Update Delivery Optimization is designed to speed up updates for other PCs on your local network by sharing bits of previously downloaded update files. On paper, it's a neat idea, but in ...

If you’ve ever launched Task Manager only to watch your CPU usage hit 100% and stay there, you may have wondered why this sudden mystery spike in system resource usage occurs. After all, Task Manager ...

Jason Parker has been at CNET for nearly 15 years. He is the senior editor in charge of iOS software and has become an expert reviewer of the software that runs on each new Apple device. He now spends ...