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 ...

What commercial software uses rootkits or rootkit-like technology? I guess it depends on how you define rootkits. Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals (he's the programmer who brought the Sony DRM rootkit ...

Security researcher Mark Russinovich, the man who alerted the world to the presence of Sony BMG’s XCP rootkit, is at it again. Russinovich and a team from F-Secure have discovered another rootkit in a ...

Amidst months of allegations from content creators in various niches, YouTube has finally admitted to using AI to enhance videos on its platform. Goldman Sachs says AI will boost productivity, cause a ...

After being criticized for including rootkit-like cloaking software in its Norton SystemWorks product, security vendor Symantec is calling for an industrywide effort to define what the term “rootkit” ...

Rootkits do not signal impending doom for corporate IT, but companies need to keep up their defenses as the malware tools begin to spread, experts say. The best way to deal with rootkits is to prevent ...

The fracas stems from a long-standing practice in Symantec's Norton SystemWorks suite to cloak a special directory. The SystemWorks feature -- which harks back to SystemWorks' predecessor, Norton ...

Once installed, the rootkit would be able to silently monitor and control the device -- a troubling notion given Cisco's dominance in the router market A security researcher has developed malicious ...

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 ...

A probable Chinese rootkit infects targeted computers and stays active even if the system is being reinstalled. Malware exists in different flavors. Most of the time, malware consists of malicious ...

Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on. The ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--Perhaps the best way to deal with rootkits is to outlaw them. At least when it comes to such mishaps as the Sony BMG Music Entertainment fiasco, that's what an official from the ...