Spurred on by the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between malicious hackers and existing anti-rootkit scanners, a pair of security researchers have teamed up on a new tool that promises a solution to the ...

What's the best way to stop a botnet? Try taking it apart to see how it works. At least, that's been the approach undertaken by malware expert Giuseppe Bonfa at InfoSec Institute, an information ...

The ZeroAccess rootkit isn’t the most well-known or closely watched piece of malware in recent history, but, as an extremely detailed new analysis of the program shows, it is a perfect example of the ...

The mysterious Avatar rootkit, detected by ESET as Win32/Rootkit.Avatar, appears to reflect a heavy investment in code development, with an API and a SDK available, plus an interesting abuse of Yahoo ...

Rootkits are both tricky and stealthy, but there are still some things that you can do if you suspect that one of your Linux system has been infected. After all, a rootkit is going to be doing ...

There were five stages to the research study on market: secondary research, primary research, subject matter expert guidance, quality check, and final review.Statistical and cogent models for the ...

There has been much skepticism over the claim that Blue Pill (the first effective Hypervisor rootkit) is 100% undetectable and I myself was very skeptical of Blue Pill when I first read about it. I ...

The stubborn popularity of Windows XP is offering an easy target for the creators of rootkit malware, according to antivirus company Avast. Three quarters of all rootkits it found in a new study were ...

Cybersecurity researchers at Bitdefender have detailed how cyber criminals have been using FiveSys, a rootkit that somehow made its way through the driver-certification process to be digitally signed ...

Malware exists in different flavors. Most of the time, malware consists of malicious files stored in computers operating systems, just like any other file, and running as software with or without high ...

Capable of cloaking malware, rootkits are fast infiltrating the enterprise to expose sensitive data without detection Late at night, a system administrator performed a routine check of a crashed ...