rootkit

The dropper creates two in-memory executables: /memfd:tgt, a harmless cron binary, and /memfd:wpn, a rootkit loader. The loader evaluates the environment, executes additional payloads,…

Vulnerability exploits the difference between DOS and NT paths When someone is asked to type the path to a file on a Windows system,…

“Microsoft hasn’t given up on securing the admin-to-kernel boundary, though,” researchers from Avast explain. “Quite the opposite. It has made a great deal of…

A sophisticated rootkit that’s able to insert itself into the lowest levels of Windows computers — the motherboard firmware — has been making victims…