These attacker tools have become stealthier than ever. Even so, they may not require specialized protection. Talk of , favorite attacker tools for compromising computer systems without detection, has ...

A rootkit is a piece of malicious software which has the advanced capability of hiding itself on an infected system. This is usually done by hooking system functions. For example a rootkit could be ...

Listen to the Computerworld TechCast: Rootkits. If an illegal hacker wants to do something to your system, such as plant a virus, a Trojan horse program or spyware, he has to gain access to the system ...

In a new report, Positive Technologies analyzes this past decade’s most infamous families of rootkits – programs that hide the presence of malicious software or traces of intrusion in victim systems.

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 ...

Research into how rootkits are used by cybercriminals has revealed that close to half of campaigns are focused on compromising government systems. On Wednesday, Positive Technologies released a report ...

I saw my first rootkit in 2004, when I was still a rookie virus analyst. At that point I had some vague knowledge of UNIX-based rootkits. One day I stumbled on an executable for Windows that didn’t ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

I was told by a computer course tutor that it's impossible to successfully remove a rootkit. To do so, one must reformat/clean install the OS. Is that true? I recently used a rootkit remover that ...

Word that Intel is taking on rootkits came as a surprise to some last week. But researchers at the chip giant have been working on security technologies for several years. What's more, Intel's labs ...

An important element of a kernel rootkit is its ability to hide itself and cover up what is really going on. Here’s one way that some rootkits do that. When a rootkit is installed, it replaces certain ...