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 ...

Thousands of Web sites have been rigged to deliver an updated version of a rootkit that many data security tools may be unprepared to handle, according to U.K.-based security software vendor Prevx Ltd ...

A new loadable kernel module (LKM) rootkit has been spotted in the wild compromising Linux systems with advanced stealth and privilege escalation features. PUMAKIT, as called by the Elastic Security ...

Sophos PLC has released a free tool to help PC users root out rootkits. Called Sophos Anti-Rootkit, the software will detect and remove both known and unknown rootkits, and it will also warn system ...

Over the past month, a new type of malicious software has emerged, using a decades-old technique to hide itself from anti-virus software. The malware, called Trojan.Mebroot by Symantec, installs ...

Microsoft has updated a zero-day exploit in its AppLocker application whitelisting software, but not before the North Korean state-backed Lazarus Group was able to leverage the flaw to pull off a ...

North Korean hackers have exploited a recently patched Google Chrome zero-day (CVE-2024-7971) to deploy the FudModule rootkit after gaining SYSTEM privileges using a Windows Kernel exploit. "We assess ...

A new, particularly malicious Android rootkit has been identified by the team of cybersecurity researchers at McAfee, and as the above image indicates, it has a particularly high rate of infection ...