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 ...

Most of the antispyware programs you can find also do some checking for rootkit-type infections so you may want to use multiple scanning programs to search for whatever is slowing your PCs down and ...

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 ...

In order to turn bigger profits from their armies of compromised computers, hackers this year will use a new tactic in targeting master boot records with viruses that plant rootkits on computers’ hard ...

Detections of attack attempts using rootkits against business targets in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have significantly increased in 2023, with 2.6 times more of these types of attacks so far this ...

LAS VEGAS -- Black Hat -- The researchers who publicly challenged Joanna Rutkowska to prove her virtualization-based rootkit is undetectable today said they are ready to release a tool that can detect ...

"Over the last 12 months, we've seen a large jump in the use of rootkits," said David Emm, a senior technology consultant with Kaspersky Labs, a Moscow-based anti-virus vendor. Since the first of the ...

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 , ...

Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer’s microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products. Called a ...