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 ...

Security researchers have identified a new family of Linux rootkits that, despite running from user mode, can be hard to detect and remove. Called Umbreon, after a Pokémon character that hides in the ...

On July 26, McAfee will begin offering a new application called Rootkit Detective, designed to detect and remove dangerous rootkit attacks. The software will also help end users ward off the threats, ...

The for-free program now detects and deletes the Wootbot, Purstiu, Optixpro, and Optix Trojans, and the Hacty rootkit. Rootkits are especially dangerous, because they can hide the existence of other ...

A new Linux kernel rootkit dubbed ‘syslogk’ has been spotted in the wild by Avast cybersecurity researchers. According to an advisory by David Álvarez and Jan Neduchal, syslogk would be able to cloak ...

Rootkits are still a security scanner’s worst nightmare: New rootkit detection tests recently conducted by AV-Test.org found that security suites and online Web scanners detected overall only a little ...

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 ...

The detectors themselves typically work by comparing different views of the system and seeing where there's a mismatch. One of the original ways to perform this kind of detection was to dump a ...

In order to protect your PC it is important to download the latest signatures from your Internet security software vendor daily and regularly scan your system to detect and eliminate stealthy viruses, ...

Security researchers have identified a new family of Linux rootkits that, despite running from user mode, can be hard to detect and remove. Called Umbreon, after a Pokémon character that hides in the ...