Scientists at Duke University and other research centres have created a weakened version of the Zika virus that could potentially be used to treat the often deadly brain cancer. In laboratory experiments, their virus appeared to specifically attack and destroy cancer cells, largely leaving healthy cells untouched.

Recently, researchers at Palo Alto Networks discovered a new variant of the Linux Trojan Bifrost (also known as Bifrose) that uses a deceptive practice known as Typosquatting to mimic a trusted VMware domain. This allows the malware to remain undetected. Bifrost is a remote access Trojan virus active since 2004 that collects sensitive information such as hostname and IP address from an infected system.