Possible New Rootkit Has Drivers Signed by Realtek

Security researchers have identified a new suspicious program that is copying itself to PCs via USB mass storage devices and is digitally signed with the certificate of Realtek Semiconductor, a major manufacturer of computer products based in Taiwan. The program, known as Stuxnet, looks like a...

Android Rootikit To Be Shown at DefCon

Researchers have developed a kernel-level Android rootkit in the form of a loadable kernel module and will demonstrate the proof of concept exploit at the upcoming DefCon conference. Read the demo statement. DefCon.org...

Microsoft Battles Alureon Rootkit

For the second month in a row, Microsoft has tried to eradicate a mutating rootkit that has blocked some Windows users from installing security updates. Read the full article. Computerworld...

MS10-015 Restart Issues Are the Result of Rootkit Infection

Microsoft on Thursday confirmed that the blue screen of death issues that affected a slew of users after the latest batch of Patch Tuesday updates is the result of an existing infection by the Alureon rootkit. There was widespread speculation after the patch release that simply installing the...

Rootkit Possible Culprit in XP BSoD

There are indications that the system crashes and the dreaded blue screen of death BSoD that many Microsoft Windows users reported suffering after installing this week’s batch of security updates may be caused at least in part by malware infestations on the affected machines. Read the full articl...

Dogrobot Malware Penetrates System Restore on Windows

GENEVA — Cyber crime gangs in China are penetrating the hard disk recovery cards on computers in Internet cafes and using a combination of zero-day flaws, rootkits and ARP spoofing techniques to steal billions of dollars worth of online gaming credentials. According to Microsoft anti-virus...

Radix Anti-Rootkit SDTHLPR.sys IOCTL Handling Privilege Escalation

Radix Anti-Rootkit，存在漏洞，本地用户利用提升自己的权限。 该漏洞是由于一个在SDTHLPR.sys内核驱动在处理IOCTL时的错误。这可以被利用来破坏内核内存和内核空间中执行任意代码通过一个特制的IOCTL。 Radix Anti-Rootkit 1.x Update to version 1.0.0.9. http://usec.at/download.php...

ASUS Eee PC and other series: BIOS SMM privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Numerous System Management Mode SMM privilege escalation vulnerabilities in ASUS motherboards including Eee PC series Release Date: 07.08.09 Timeline: March 08, 2009: first attempt to contact vendor, no response March 16, 2009: second attempt to contact vendor, no response July 18, 2009: CERT...

Rootkit techniques the main principle of explanation-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Article author: hackisle rootkit main categories: Application-level-kernel-the hardware level Early rootkits mainly for application-level rootkits application-level rootkits mainly by replacing the login, ps, ls, netstat and other system tools, or modify. rhosts etc system configuration files, et...

EPSON Status Monitor 3 - Local Privilege Escalation

------- EPSON Status Monitor 3 local privilege escalation vulnerability -------- by Nine:Situations:Group::bruiser site: http://retrogod.altervista.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After that pyrokinesis found:...

EPSON Status Monitor 3 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Exploit for unknown platform in category local exploits =============================================================== EPSON Status Monitor 3 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability =============================================================== ------- EPSON Status Monitor 3 local privilege...

Update Protections against Recent Malware Threats (28-Apr-09)

The update includes new protections against 4 recent malware threats:Trojan-Dropper: IRC.TKB - Trojan-Dropper IRC.TKB is an application that installs malicious files and downloads unwanted content to user's host without user's consent. Backdoor: Trojan.TDSS.1.Gen - Trojan.TDSS.1.Gen is a backdoor...

Analysis Backdoor detection techniques-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

First of all we want to know what is the backdoor program? On the network common to the“back door”to explain, in fact, we can use a very simple word to summarize it: the back door is left in the computer system, for a particular use by a particular way of controlling a computer system of the...

in the web application rootkit-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Author: jianxin 80sec EMail: jianxin80sec.com Site: http://www.80sec.com Date: 2009-3-28 From: http://www.80sec.com/release/webapp-rootkit.txt Directory 0×0 0 why do we have this idea 0×0 1 A web application in the back door of the basic idea 0×0 2 The practical application of some examples 0×0 0...

Researchers unveil persistent BIOS attack methods

Apply all of the browser, application and OS patches you want, your machine still can be completely and silently compromised at the lowest level–without the use of any vulnerability. That was the rather sobering message delivered by a pair of security researchers from Core Security Technologies i...

Fedora Update for rkhunter FEDORA-2008-8314

Check for the Version of rkhunter OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for rkhunter FEDORA-2008-8314 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

“Cocktail”therapy to deal with the variety of Trojan hybrid intrusion-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Here is a quote of the“cocktail”therapy is a medical term, refers to the physician while using the a variety of anti-viral drugs to deal with AIDS. For a computer virus to a single tool in particular is very well-known tool is very easy to be viral as against the target without losing effect, it'...

Constructed of no-man's environment: Exploiting the Realtek RTL8139 single-chip Ethernet Controller-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Author: Azy Finish: 2008-10-22 Excellent rootkit hereinafter abbreviated as rk usually should have hidden a stable communication function. As good programmers have been pursuing with the most simple code to complete the functional requirements of the same, excellent rk coder also has been adherin...

OpenBSD/x86 - Load Kernel Module (/tmp/o.o) Shellcode (66 bytes)

OpenBSD/x86 - Load Kernel Module /tmp/o.o Shellcode 66 bytes. Shellcode exploit for OpenBSDx86 platform / The modload shellcode loads /tmp/o.o module very usefull if you have rootkit as kernel module in the /tmp dir and you can easily change the path directly in the code Size 66 bytes OS OpenBSD...

OpenBSD/x86 - setuid(0) + Load Kernel Module (/tmp/o.o) Shellcode (74 bytes)

OpenBSD/x86 - setuid0 + Load Kernel Module /tmp/o.o Shellcode 74 bytes. Shellcode exploit for OpenBSDx86 platform / The modload shellcode setuid0 loads /tmp/o.o module very usefull if you have rootkit as kernel module in the /tmp dir Size 74 bytes OS OpenBSD /rootteam/dev0id rootteam.void.ru...