One of the newest threats in the wild—what security mavens mean by "loose on the net"—is called a "rootkit," or RK for short. While a rootkit by itself causes no damage, it attempts to ...

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 ...

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 ...