This Week In Security: Black Hat, Spammers and Trusted Rootkits

The old saying that there’s nothing new under the sun is just as true in the security industry as it is anywhere else. Many new attacks are variants or tweaks of existing ones, new software fails in exactly the same way as old software and new technologies crop up to solve problems that are 30...

Researchers Show Off Mobile Rootkit Dangers

Rutgers University researchers have demonstrated how rootkits can be a threat to smartphones sporting operating systems not much unlike those in full-blown computers. Read the full article. Network World...

Researchers Create Hypervisor Tool for Rootkits

Research between North Carolina State and Microsoft has garnered a way to better isolate and centralize kernels–up to 6,000 different kernel hooks–and has stopped nine rootkits. The tool is called HookSafe and runs on Ubuntu Linux 8.04 and uses hardware-based memory. At issue is whether other...

Rising Antivirus 2009 Privilege Escalation

No description provided by source. Application: Rising Antivirus 2009 Platforms: Windows XP Professional SP2 Exploitation: Privilege Escalation Date: 2009-10-26 Author: Francis Provencher Protek Research Lab's 1 Introduction 2 Technical details 3 The Code N/A =============== 1 Introduction...

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...

Dino Dai Zovi on Mac OS X Rootkits, Mac Exploitation and Hacking Contests

Dennis Fisher talks with security researcher Dino Dai Zovi about his upcoming Black Hat talk on Mac OS X rootkits, exploiting the Mac and the value of hacking contests and internal code reviews. Download SHOW NOTES: Dino Dai Zovi on Mac Security, ‘nomore free bugs’ Where is Apple’s Trustworthy...

New attack sneaks rootkits into Linux kernel

From DarkReading Kelly Jackson Higgins Kernel rootkits are tough enough to detect, but now a researcher has demonstrated an even sneakier method of hacking Linux. The attack exploits dtors.org PDF an oft-forgotten function in Linux versions 2.4 and above in order to quietly insert a rootkit into...

GhostNet shows extent of online spying

As a result of some tremendous work done by researchers at the University of Toronto, we now know that there is an enormous network of compromised machines in more than 100 countries around the world, many of them in government agencies, embassies and other sensitive locations. The network has it...

Kill KV 2 0 0 8, Rising, etc. most of the mollusc-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Article author: sudami [email protected] Information source: evil octal information security team www.eviloctal.com） Original source: http://hi.baidu.com/sudami/blog/item/a0f114dac68fe3dfb6fd481a.html Preface: Writing this article is not to spread the virus technology,but for the majority of compute...

Advanced malware technology new challenges--break active Defense-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Article author: xyzreg Author website: http://www.xyzreg.net Information source: evil octal information security team forum.eviloctal.com） This is the year I'm in XCON2007 security focus information security technology summit the speech of the subjects, now offers ppt download Address: Topic...

REVERSING MRXSMB.SYS CHAPTER II “NtClose DeadLock”

REVERSING MRXSMB.SYS CHAPTER II “NtClose DeadLock” Rubn Santamarta [email protected] www.reversemode.com May 15, 2006 Abstract Kernel Object Manager is prone to a deadlock situation which could be exploitable making unkillable any process running, complicating its elimination. INDEX...

alya.cgi

alya.cgi is a cgi backdoor distributed with multiple rootkits. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: alya.nasl 8023 2017-12-07 08:36:26Z teissa $ Description: alya.cgi Authors: Jason Lidow Copyright: Copyright C 2002 Jason Lidow This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

alya.cgi

alya.cgi is a cgi backdoor distributed with multiple rootkits. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2002 Jason Lidow Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

RKDetect

Rkdetect is a little anomaly detection tool which can find services hidden by generic Windows rootkits like Hacker Defender. Tool very simply. It enumerates services on remote computer through WMI user level and Services Control Manager kernel level, compare result and display difference. In this...