Complexity in rootkits is growing at a phenomenal rate, allowing malicious software to burrow deep and potentially go undetected inside Microsoft's Windows platform, according to a security report ...

For as long as cyber criminals have been cooking up malicious software to do stuff like stealing your precious data, the security industry has been thinking up creative names for their little schemes.

Rootkits are scary and becoming a larger and larger menace to our computers every day. In the past if our computers were infected with a piece of malware, we simply removed it and we were clean of the ...

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 ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

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 ...

Microsoft security researchers are warning about a new generation of powerful system monitoring programs, or “rootkits,” that are almost impossible to detect using current security products and that ...

There exists much confusion between the terms malware and rootkit. In the context of malware, the rootkit is a part of the malware which ensures that a cyber miscreant maintains his access to the ...

Most malware are like leeches on your computer’s software. But, a rootkit can turn your computer’s very operating system against you. If you’re a smart Windows user, you probably already know about ...

This weekend news spread quickly that the PC version of BioShock comes loaded with a rootkit. The only problem is that it isn't loaded with a rootkit, it's just your standard "let's punish our ...