rootkit
Microsoft’s Free Cloud Rootkit Sweeper is Hitting Some Sweet Spots
Microsoft has built an absolute behemoth of a cloud virtual machine (VM) security tool from scratch in Rust* called Project…
Rootkit in the Cloud: Hacker Group Breaches AWS Servers
A sophisticated hacker group pwned Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers, set up a rootkit that let them remotely control servers,…
Chinese Hackers Dropped Rootkit in 50,000 Servers: Then Left Theirs Wide Open
Security researchers at Tel Aviv-based security specialist Guardicore say they have identified a malicious campaign by a Chinese hacker that…
Project Mu: Microsoft Open Sources UEFI Codebase
Microsoft has open sourced a UEFI codebase that is the basis for the system firmware within a number of Microsoft's…
This Sophisticated Spyware Supports Advertising Fraud, Pulls Ads from Google’s AdSense
Cybersecurity specialist Bitdefender has identified an “extremely sophisticated piece of rootkit-based spyware” that has been running covertly since early 2012,…
