Hoping to understand what a new generation of mobile malware could resemble, security researchers will demonstrate a malicious “rootkit” program they’ve written for Google’s Android phone next month ...

Many of you are probably familiar with the concept of rootkits – malicious software that lurks hidden at a low-level on your Windows or Unix computer, remaining undetected by conventional anti-virus ...

Security researchers plan to demonstrate a rootkit running on an Android-based smartphone that could give an intruder full access to all the functions of the device. Nicholas Percoco and Christian ...

Researchers have developed a rootkit that can manipulate and steal data from Android applications. The rootkit swapped the phone’s web browser with one that stole user data and could be similarly used ...

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - October 15, 2015) - Trustlook Inc, an innovative mobile security start-up in Silicon Valley, has launched the first anti-rootkit tool on Android, as a solution for the ...

Insecurity experts are going to demonstrate a "rootkit" program they've written for Google's Android phone next month at the Defcon hacking conference in Las Vegas. Christian Papathanasiou, a security ...

Google has beefed up security in Android 4.4, KitKat to block malware from taking over user devices, but some of these changes may pose challenges for users who like to take control of their own ...

Researchers at U.S.-based mobile security vendor NQ Mobile claim to have discovered the first rootkit designed to insert malicious apps into the install routines of legitimate software to give them ...

Hoping to understand what a new generation of mobile malware could resemble, security researchers will demonstrate a malicious "rootkit" program they've written for Google's Android phone next month ...