Stories of Malware

Stories of malware.

High-risk medical technology has been found to be infected by computer viruses and malware, health and security experts have said they fear that the virus infections could become so severe that a patient may end up getting harmed.

Out-dated computer systems which were not able to be changed were to blame for the vulnerabilities, the experts said. One US hospital is said to be deleting viruses from up to two machines a week.

 A Trojan horse is types of malware, that pretends to be a helpful program but intends to, for example, grant a hacker access to your computer. Trojans may steal information, or do damage to the host computer. Zeus is a Trojan horse that steals banking information, and had infected 2,411 companies and organizations.