Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer’s microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products. Called a ...

Antivirus firms Trend Micro and Sophos have developed new tools to discover rootkit infections but both are attacking the problem from a slightly different angle. Rootkits are powerful programs that ...

The revelation 5 years ago that Sony BMG was planting a secret rootkit onto its music customers’ Windows PCs in the name of anti-piracy is seen now as one of the all-time significant events in IT ...

The fracas stems from a long-standing practice in Symantec's Norton SystemWorks suite to cloak a special directory. The SystemWorks feature -- which harks back to SystemWorks' predecessor, Norton ...

Nearly four months after hiring Sony rootkit whistleblower Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Corp. has moved his company’s software to its Web site and has released a new Windows system tool that can help ...

After being criticized for including rootkit-like cloaking software in its Norton SystemWorks product, security vendor Symantec is calling for an industrywide effort to define what the term “rootkit” ...

The Sophos rootkit tool is actually fairly useful, but it's really the last thing to use for consumer cleanup after malwarebytes and a good AV scan.

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 with ...

A lot of malicious software originates in the former Eastern Bloc and other once-communist nations. Theories of why that is vary: Perhaps unemployed workers in those countries are highly educated in ...