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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carrer IQ apologized yesterday in a statement (PDF) and backed down from its legal threats. "As, of today, we are withdrawing our cease and desist letter to Mr. Trevor Eckhart. We have reached out to ...

Microsoft security researchers are warning about a new generation of powerful system monitoring programs, or “rootkits,” that are almost impossible to detect using current security products and that ...