Rootkits are powerful malware, actually a bunch of them together, that even your antivirus may find it hard to detect and remove from your system. Rootkits can be manually put inside the system with ...

Late at night, a system administrator performed a routine check of a crashed server, one of 48 systems comprising a major online infrastructure that generated about US$4 million per month in revenue.

When a security researcher late last year discovered Sony was using hidden software-cloaking and monitoring techniques to protect copyrights on its music CDs, public backlash prompted lawsuits against ...

Rootkits hide processes, files, and network connections and can be written to perform like a device driver on any operating system. Most people associate rootkits with the questionable practices of ...

A modern antispyware utility is a ruthless killer. The moment it sees a malicious program that matches one of its virus or spyware signatures, it terminates the process and deletes all file and ...

Analyzing rootkits used in attacks over the past decade, cybersecurity researchers have discovered that close to half (44%) have been used to power campaigns that have focused on compromising ...

Rootkits are becoming more prevalent and difficult to detect, and security vendor McAfee claims the blame falls squarely on the open-source community. In its “Rootkits” report being published Monday , ...

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 ...

The good news is that neither rootkit has shown up in the wild. And Dai Zovi says such a hack is not imminent. The bad news: Dai Zovi says these hacks haven’t been unleashed on unsuspecting enterprise ...