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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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a typosquatting npm package concealing a full-service Discord remote access Trojan (RAT) that offers rootkit functionality. The malware, dubbed "DiscordRAT 2.0," functions ...

One year after his Black Hat talk on Automated Teller Machine security vulnerabilities was yanked by his employer, security researcher Barnaby Jack plans to deliver the talk and disclose a new ATM ...

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 ...

Attackers could use a new macOS vulnerability discovered by Microsoft to bypass System Integrity Protection (SIP) and perform arbitrary operations, elevate privileges to root, and install rootkits on ...

A previously undetected malware dubbed 'Lightning Framework' that targets Linux systems can be used to backdoor infected devices using SSH and deploy rootkits to cover the attackers' tracks. Described ...

Symantec has found a new rootkit that hides from Windows XP on the hard drive’s boot sector. Nasty stuff. A traditional rootkit installs as a driver while this new rootkit installs so that it controls ...

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 ...