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 ...

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 ...

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 ...