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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the newest threats in the wild—what security mavens mean by "loose on the net"—is called a "rootkit," or RK for short. While a rootkit by itself causes no damage, it attempts to ...

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 , ...

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 ...

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 ...

Late at night, a system administrator performed a routine check of a crashed server, one of 48 systems comprising a major online infrastructure that generated about US$4 million per month in revenue.

A probable Chinese rootkit infects targeted computers and stays active even if the system is being reinstalled. Malware exists in different flavors. Most of the time, malware consists of malicious ...