Anti-Virus Updates Required Ahead of Microsoft’s Meltdown, Spectre Patches

Microsoft said it is holding off delivering security updates to Windows PCs for Spectre and Meltdown CPU flaws until hosted anti-virus software confirms it does not make unsupported calls into Windows kernel memory. Affected are PCs running certain AV products that bypass Windows built-in Kernel...

Necurs Rootkit Infections Way Up

Infections from a nasty bit of malware, generally delivered by the Black Hole Exploit Kit, surged in November, hitting more than 83,000 machines. Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center rates the Necurs rootkit threat as severe. Dubbed a rootkit by Kaspersky Lab, Necurs has many dimensions to it...

Denis Nazarov

Gathering his statistics from the Kaspersky Security Network, Denis Nazarov, head of Kaspersky Lab’s Anti-Malware Research US, compared infection rates on x86 and x64 versions of Windows while describing Kernel Patch Protection technology...

TDL4 Rootkit Bypasses Windows Code-Signing Protection

In recent versions of Windows, specifically Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft has introduced a number of new security features designed to prevent malicious code from running. But attackers are continually finding new ways around those protections, and the latest example is a rootkit that can bypass...