Category Archives: Deep Knowledge

This Week: Black Hat Coverage

August 3, 2011 – 9:45 am

By Andrew Brandt As I do every year, I’ve deliberately traveled to the most inhospitable climate zone in the continental US — that is, the city of Las Vegas — to attend the elite technical conference known as the Black Hat Briefings. Black Hat is not just a technical conference, but a kind of calling [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Leave a Comment

ZeroAccess Gets Another Update

July 19, 2011 – 10:13 pm

By Marco Giuliani Among the most infamous kernel mode rootkits in the wild, most of them have had a slowdown in their development cycle – TDL rootkit, MBR rootkit, Rustock are just some examples. The same doesn’t apply for the ZeroAccess rootkit. The team behind it is working quite hard, which we know for a [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Destructive behavior, Backdoors, Advanced Malware Removal, Smart Malware Tricks, rootkit | Comments (12)
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