New Rootkit Tricks the Operating System, Sits in Computer's Memory

TechWorld reported today that a new type of malware that could be impossible to detect by the anti-virus technologies currently on the market has been developed by security researchers and will be demonstrated at the Black Hat security event scheduled for August in Las Vegas. The same source adds that the new rootkit could prove to be incredibly hard to detect first of all due to the fact that it stays in a "protected part of the computer memory". The rootkit is named System Manager Mode (S... Read »

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