Apr 24 2009
Linux Users Now Protected With New Rootkit Technique
During the Black Hat security conference in Amsterdam, the presentation entitled “Alice in User-Land: Hijacking the Linux Kernel via/dev/mem” of the Linux professional, Anthony Lineberry, said to the public that he will soon publish the Libmemrk library. Libmemrk is operationable in both 32- and 63-bit systems.
The Libmemrk shall enable rootkit developers to hide processes and [...]
Apr 6 2009
Mebroot: Why It Is The Stealthiest Rootkit in the Wild?
Mebroot, the new breed of malware or rootkit can actually replace the Master Boot Record (MBR) of an infected system that has the very first code that is executed when the computer is booting. Mebroot, AKA Torpig and Sinowal, is a very powerful malware that is undetectable in the hardware.
The Mebroot kit has the ability [...]