Cybersecurity researchers at Bitdefender have detailed how cyber criminals have been using FiveSys, a rootkit that somehow made its way through the driver-certification process to be digitally signed ...

Q: I currently use BitDefender 2016 on my Windows 10 network and mobile devices. I trust that security software to guard against the normal hazards of modern computer/internet usage (drive-by-attacks, ...

Security researcher Mark Russinovich, the man who alerted the world to the presence of Sony BMG’s XCP rootkit, is at it again. Russinovich and a team from F-Secure have discovered another rootkit in a ...

The technique has been likened to the rootkits used by hackers to make it impossible to delete malware from machines. It is based around the Lenovo Service Engine, a program embedded within the ...

This free app makes a useful distinction between known and unknown rootkits, though it recommends removing only known ones. But it couldn't remove every rootkit it detected. Worse, it reported success ...

Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on. The ...

Panda Anti-Rootkit digs deeper than any other anti-rootkit tool I've seen, telling you exactly what it found. For safety it won't delete files digitally signed by Microsoft—smart! And it wiped out ...

Sony BMG Music Entertainment announced on Tuesday that it has reached a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over the controversial embedding of antipiracy software its CDs without ...

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 ...

Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million and kick in thousands more in customer refunds to settle lawsuits brought by California and Texas over music CDs that installed a hidden anti-piracy ...

Sony continues to distribute software containing a rootkit-like cloaking technology, which security firms say could be used by criminals to hide malware, from its Web site. Sony has once again come ...

Researchers at the University of Princeton have uncovered additional information about the rootkit that was shipped without users' knowledge on Sony BMG music CDs. The findings indicate that the Sony ...