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 ...

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 , ...

Rootkits are bad. Well, that is to say they are when in the wrong hands. Rootkits can take over a system and cause problems for even large corporations like Sony BMG who nearly slipped them onto the ...

An unknown threat actor used a new stealthy rootkit to backdoor targeted Windows systems what looks like an ongoing espionage campaign dubbed TunnelSnake going back to at least 2018. Rootkits are ...

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 ...

In a campaign dubbed Operation TunnelSnake by Kaspersky researchers, the team said on Thursday that an advanced persistent threat (APT) group, origin unknown but suspected of being Chinese-speaking, ...

Symantec's Raw Disk Scan rootkit search-and-remove app is an example of what kind of technology the Symantec-Veritas merger will bring forth Some industry watchers may still question why Symantec ...

Researchers have discovered a new malware attack campaign that exploits misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink, two technologies for processing big data sets and data streams. The attackers ...