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 ...

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 ...

Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer’s microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products. Called a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The detection and eradication of rootkits — the software code increasingly used to hide malware or adware — is either fairly simple or nearly impossible, depending on which security expert is bringing ...

Microsoft to remove rootkit component of XCP copy-protection software used by Sony and others In a recent TechNet blog, Jason Garms of Microsoft's Anti-Malware Technology Team outlined how the company ...

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 ...

The revelation 5 years ago that Sony BMG was planting a secret rootkit onto its music customers’ Windows PCs in the name of anti-piracy is seen now as one of the all-time significant events in IT ...

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 ...