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 ...

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 ...