A rootkit is a collection of computer software, typically malicious, designed to enable access to a computer or an area of its software that is not otherwise...
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existence, leading to both programs being classified as rootkits. Sony BMG initially denied that the rootkits were harmful. It then released an uninstaller for...
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RootkitRevealer is a proprietary freeware tool for rootkit detection on Microsoft Windows by Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovich. It runs on Windows XP...
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Rkhunter (redirect from Rootkit Hunter)
rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. It does this by comparing SHA-1 hashes of...
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Turla (malware) (redirect from Uroburos rootkit)
Turla or Uroboros (Russian: Турла) is a Trojan package that is suspected by computer security researchers and Western intelligence officers to be the product...
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Intel Management Engine (redirect from Ring -3 rootkit)
September 2018, yet another vulnerability was published (SA-00125). A ring −3 rootkit was demonstrated by Invisible Things Lab for the Q35 chipset; it does not...
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Extended Copy Protection (redirect from Sony rootkits)
Sony rootkit. Security researchers, beginning with Mark Russinovich in October 2005, have described the program as functionally identical to a rootkit: a...
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preactivated without user authorization. The software agent behaves like a rootkit, reinstalling a small installer agent into the Windows OS at boot time...
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lightweight system that protects an operating system's kernel hooks from rootkit attacks. It prevents thousands of kernel hooks in the guest operating system...
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Stuxnet (category Rootkits)
file that automatically executes the propagated copies of the worm; and a rootkit component responsible for hiding all malicious files and processes, to...
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hypervisor-based rootkit. In 2009, researchers from Microsoft and North Carolina State University demonstrated a hypervisor-layer anti-rootkit called Hooksafe...
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performs log analysis, integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, rootkit detection, time-based alerting, and active response. It provides intrusion...
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Direct kernel object manipulation (category Windows rootkit techniques)
Direct kernel object manipulation (DKOM) is a common rootkit technique for Microsoft Windows to hide potentially damaging third-party processes, drivers...
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Greg Hoglund (section rootkit.com)
and Outlier Security. Hoglund contributed early research to the field of rootkits, software exploitation, buffer overflows, and online game hacking. His...
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Sony BMG (section Rootkit scandal)
issued an advisory on Extended Copy Protection DRM, citing the XCP use of rootkit technology to hide certain files from the computer user as a security threat...
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The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System is a book written by Bill Blunden, published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers...
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Dan Kaminsky (section Sony rootkit)
experts for his work on DNS cache poisoning, for showing that the Sony Rootkit had infected at least 568,000 computers, and for his talks at the Black...
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AFX Windows Rootkit 2003 is a user mode rootkit that hides files, processes and registry. When the installer of the rootkit is executed, the installer...
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Storm Worm (section Rootkit)
action the Storm Worm takes is to install the rootkit Win32.agent.dh. Symantec pointed out that flawed rootkit code voids some of the Storm Worm author's...
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Ubisoft Connect (section Rootkit allegations)
Information Security Engineer at Google, claimed that "Uplay" DRM is a rootkit and poses a serious security risk. The software installs a browser plugin...
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Antivirus software (section Rootkit detection)
for rootkits. A rootkit is a type of malware designed to gain administrative-level control over a computer system without being detected. Rootkits can...
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digital rights management capabilities that "phone home", keyloggers, rootkits, and web beacons. These four categories are not mutually exclusive and...
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December 2021 Iranian researchers at Amnpardaz security firm have discovered rootkits in HPs iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) management modules. Intel Active Management...
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Blue Pill (software) (category Rootkits)
Blue Pill is the codename for a rootkit based on x86 virtualization. Blue Pill originally required AMD-V (Pacifica) virtualization support, but was later...
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Chkrootkit (category Rootkit detection software)
Chkrootkit (Check Rootkit) is a widely used Unix-based utility designed to aid system administrators in examining their systems for rootkits. Operating as...
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Sony rootkit in Sony DRM products, whose function was to prevent users from copying their media. In January 2006, Russinovich discovered a rootkit in Norton...
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Jon Lech Johansen (section Sony BMG DRM rootkit)
WOW". Slashdot. 2005-11-17. Retrieved 2007-08-14. "DVD Jon's Code In Sony Rootkit?". Slashdot. 2005-11-17. Retrieved 2007-08-14. Johansen, Jon Lech (2006-01-08)...
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layer below the System Management Mode rootkits.) For the vulnerable Q35 chipset, a keystroke logger ME-based rootkit was demonstrated by Patrick Stewin....
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