Data-bomb

A data-bomb is a viral program developed by the Rise, designed to disrupt systems.

Fiction

2019 IDW continuity

As part of the Rise's plan, Bitstream, Mindwipe, and Sparkstalker created a data-bomb to upload into the Titan Net. When Team Stream uploaded it, the bomb disabled all of the Titans save Vigilem. The Change In Your Nature Part Four The Titan Net's operators attempted to undo the data-bomb effort's to no avail. The Change In Your Nature Part Five Tremors

Following the Decepticon takeover of the Senate, Bitstream, Mindwipe and Sparkstalker took over the Titan Net. Though they worked to reawaken the giants, they found that data-bomb had worked too well. Fearing that the Autobots might be able to reactivate the Titans from a subsidiary facility, Megatron ordered his technicians to accelerate the Titans' fall. Titans

When the cracking of the Sea of Rust unleashed rust worms on Cybertron, Enigmatic Termagax witnessed one of them be overpowered and carried off by an Insecticlone, giving her the idea End of Time of turning the Insecticons against the rust worms. The Landscape of Fear To that end, Glyph and Blaster coded a powerful data-bomb that Novastar subsequently detonated on Bombshell, the viral programming causing the Insecticons to target the rust worms. End of Time