There are a lot of malware programs in the wild today, but luckily we have methods of detecting and removing them. Antivirus is an old standby, and if that fails you can always just reformat the hard ...

Trend Micro has quietly released a rootkit scanning/cleaning utility, belatedly joining the list of anti-vendors pushing out free standalone tools to nab the stealthy computer threats. Trend Micro's ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Long before Mark Russinovich blew the whistle on Sony BMGs use of stealthy, rootkit-style techniques to cloak its DRM scheme, spyware researchers recall seeing traces of the controversial XCP ...

This post explains what is a Rootkit virus in cybersecurity. While it is possible to hide malware in a way that will fool even the traditional antivirus/antispyware products, most malware programs ...

Hoping to understand what a new generation of mobile malware could resemble, security researchers will demonstrate a malicious “rootkit” program they’ve written for Google’s Android phone next month ...

A rootkit-based malware disguised as a free VPN service has infected at least thousands of Windows PCs, according to Romanian cybersecurity and antivirus software company BitDefender. The group behind ...

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 ...

Two prominent Web sites that specialize in remote access software known as “rootkits” have been taken offline by a large distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. The take-down was allegedly ...

The Sony BMG copy protection debacle has pulled "rootkit" out of the hacker underground and into the wider world of regular computer users. But while those PC owners may now recognize the term, that ...