rootkit

Mac zero-day makes rootkit infection very easy

A security researcher discovered a zero-day vulnerability in many Mac firmware that could allow an easy installation of an EFI…

9 years ago

GPU-based malware, the evolution of rootkits and keyloggers

Malware developers have presented two proof-of-concept malware, a rootkit and a keylogger, which exploit the GPU of the infected host.…

9 years ago

Linux DDoS Trojan embeds RootKit component

Security experts at Avast have analyzed a new strain of DDoS trojan targeting Linux operating system dubbed XOR.DDoS which embeds…

9 years ago

A new way to bypass Secure Boot security mechanism of UEFI

Security Experts discovered a new attack method to defeat Secure Boot security mechanism of the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface).…

10 years ago

Is the Agent.btz malware the link between Snake and Red October?

The agent.btz malware may have served as starting point for malware Turla and the malicious code used in the Red…

10 years ago

SNAKE – The last cyber espionage campaign on a large scale

BAE Systems Applied Intelligence has disclosed a Russian cyber espionage campaign codenamed as SNAKE that targeted Governments and Military Networks.…

10 years ago

Uroburos rootkit, is it part of Russian Cyber weapon programme?

Researchers at German G Data published an interesting analysis for Uroborun rootkit alleged to be a component of Russian cyber…

10 years ago

Government-built malware and cyber weapons will run out of control

F-Secure's Chief Mikko Hyppönen at the TrustyCon explained the risk that Government-built malware and cyber weapons will run out of…

10 years ago

New “experimental” rootkit menaces Linux OS

Yesterday I wrote about a new variant of malware able to use Google Docs function to hide communications to C&C servers, but…

11 years ago

McAfee Report on alarming growth of cyber threats

I find really interesting the report released by security firms regarding the principal cyber threats and the related evolution. This…

12 years ago

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