The malicious activity, codenamed Pacific Rim and designed to conduct surveillance, sabotage, and cyber espionage, has been ...

Attackers can downgrade Windows kernel components to bypass security features such as Driver Signature Enforcement and deploy ...

In a detailed analysis of the exploit, Lazarus and the FudModule Rootkit, Jan Vojtěšek from the Avast Threat Labs explains how researchers found the exploit for this previously unknown zero-day ...

When combined with Web threats, the new rootkit is proving to be both a destructive and prolific combination, security experts say. The rootkit models a similar virus from several years ago but ...

More recent rootkit detectors use variations on this scheme that don't require exiting the operating system to get usable results. I've also looked at these applications in a more general light ...

UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published an analysis of a Linux malware named "Pigmy Goat" created to backdoor Sophos XG firewall devices as part of recently disclosed attacks by ...

The core firmware rootkit needs to be very small in order to fit in the limited memory space on the hard drive’s memory chips. It’s only a few KB in size, but that doesn’t stop it from ...

Wiping your device is considered the "full nuclear" option when it comes to tackling malware. You wipe all data on your ...

Sophos provided details of changing tactics by Chinese APT groups over a five-year period, involving a shift towards stealthy ...

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A stealthy network backdoor found on hacked Sophos XG firewall devices is programmed to work on a broader range of ...

Researchers from Kaspersky have discovered a new kind of powerful Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware rootkit known as CosmicStrand, which they attribute to an unidentified ...