After reaching a record high in early 2011, rootkit malware has consistently dropped, with last quarter’s figure the lowest McAfee has tallied since 2008. “We attribute the decline to the adoption of ...

Rootkits are powerful malware, actually a bunch of them together, that even your antivirus may find it hard to detect and remove from your system. Rootkits can be manually put inside the system with ...

A digitally-signed rootkit is used in wide-reaching malicious activities aimed at stealing login credentials, payment information, and browsing history, spam social network users, and adware activity.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The proliferation of rootkits — which are used to cloak files on disks, system hooks, and processes running on systems — is alarming, as spyware developers and malware authors are creating bot ...

If anything good has come from the Sony DRM rootkit debacle, it's an increased awareness of the peril of rootkits. How many people knew what a rootkit was? Or heard of a rootkit? Outside of security ...

Researchers from Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky say they found malware they've dubbed CosmicStrand in firmware images of Gigabyte or ASUS motherboards. The malware delivers a kernel-level ...

Teams from Sana Security have discovered a difficult-to-detect trojan designed to steal passwords previously used on infected machines. The malware is effective because it acts as a rootkit to stay ...