Two computer worms found last summer topped the charts in March, highlighting the difficulty of eliminating the more successful digital pests from the Internet. Data furnished by e-mail service ...

A computer worm is a type of malware whose primary function is to self-replicate and infect other computers while remaining active on infected systems. A computer worm duplicates itself to spread to ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could target any known flaw in the world’s computers. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has ...

In cybersecurity, few words trigger more dread than ‘wormable’—a vulnerability that could be weaponized into a self-spreading worm. Now researchers at the University of Toronto have demonstrated ...

Computer science researchers are predicting new types of dangerous worms that would be able to infect Web servers, browsers and other software so quickly that the Internet itself could be taken over ...