The detectors themselves typically work by comparing different views of the system and seeing where there's a mismatch. One of the original ways to perform this kind of detection was to dump a ...

A rootkit that hides from Windows on the hard drive’s boot sector is infecting PCs, security researchers said today. Once installed, the cloaking software is undetectable by most current antivirus ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Long before Mark Russinovich blew the whistle on Sony BMGs use of stealthy, rootkit-style techniques to cloak its DRM scheme, spyware researchers recall seeing traces of the controversial XCP ...

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 ...

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 ...

You don’t want a rootkit infection. Any malware compromise is bad, but rootkits—by their very nature—are especially nasty. The irony is that you might have a rootkit infection right now and not know ...

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 ...

Malware exists in different flavors. Most of the time, malware consists of malicious files stored in computers operating systems, just like any other file, and running as software with or without high ...

In recent weeks, attackers have leveraged workarounds that let them sign malicious kernel drivers, dealing a multi-pronged threat to Windows systems, the Windows Hardware Quality Lab testing integrity ...

The software developer behind a leading rootkit program says he is motivated by necessity, curiosity and a desire to expose weaknesses in the Windows operating system and security technology. He also ...

As software development focuses on continuous integration and deployment, orchestration platforms like Kubernetes have taken off, but that popularity has put them in attackers' crosshairs. Most ...