Rather than amateurs working out of their parents' basement, malware creators are often part of an underworld of criminal gang, or working directly for a foreign government or intelligence agency.

Last week, the Norvag or MyDoom virus became the largest and most destructive computer virus in history. An untold number of computers and personal email systems have been infected by the email worm, ...

(Reuters) - A version of Shamoon, the destructive computer virus that crippled tens of thousands of computers at Middle Eastern energy companies four years ago, was used in mid-November to attack ...