Iran's nuclear facility was air-gapped, meaning its network was offline, so Stuxnet had to be introduced via an inside agent using a USB drive. The malware operated undetected, using a rootkit to ...

The core firmware rootkit needs to be very small in order to fit in the limited memory space on the hard drive’s memory chips. It’s only a few KB in size, but that doesn’t stop it from ...

Once inside, Stuxnet used a rootkit to conceal its presence and appeared as legitimate commands through stolen digital certificates. Despite initial setbacks, a more aggressive version of Stuxnet ...

The malware commonly known as ’Flame’ appears to have a common origin with the military-grade Stuxnet worm. That assessment comes from Kaspersky Labs, which has been comparing the two pieces ...

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 ...

In the opening quarter of 2006, said McAfee in the first of a trilogy of reports on rootkits, its Avert Labs spotted more rootkit components in worms, Trojan horses, and spyware than in all of 2005.

A Linux malware named "perfctl" has been targeting Linux servers and workstations for at least three years, remaining largely undetected through high levels of evasion and the use of rootkits.

No one has the source code for the operating system running on the Intel ME, and the ME is an ideal target for a rootkit. Is there hope for a truly secure laptop? According to [Joanna], there is ...

But Stuxnet - the name given to the incident that targeted Iran's nuclear programme over a decade ago - is not just one of the few exceptions but arguably also the first demonstration of what such ...

The U.S. and Israel are widely assumed to be responsible for the Stuxnet computer worm that hit Iran’s nuclear facilities. But Moscow has just as good a motive. The Stuxnet computer worm is ...