Displaying items by tag: Rootkits

GUEST RESEARCH: In 2023, Barracuda XDR, including its team of SOC analysts on 24-hour watch, cut through nearly two trillion (1,640 billion) IT events to isolate tens of thousands of potentially high-risk security threats.

Respected security practitioner Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade has criticised the manner in which Microsoft has reacted to the recent breach of its Azure cloud service, describing it as "enraging, duplicitous, disappointing, counter-productive and, most importantly, unnecessary".

GUEST OPINION: Companies are adopting cloud native technologies faster than ever before. With new technology comes new threats and challenges, so it’s no surprise that we’re seeing an increasing number of cyber threats targeting cloud native environments.

Cloud security provider Aqua Security has found attackers are using new ways to target cloud native environments.

Canadian security software and services firm Blackberry claims five attack groups serving the interests of China have been targeting Linux servers, Windows systems and Android devices for nearly 10 years, remaining undetected in the process.

Security company Webroot claims that the number of instances of malware per user has fallen by 16% from 2015 to the first half of 2016.

Rootkits are the nirvana for hackers. Primarily designed to gain privileged administrator access - a backdoor - to any device they allow the hacker to do pretty much anything.

Mac security specialist Intego says it has found a new Mac Trojan, which it has dubbed OSX/Crisis.

Security software vendor BitDefender is offering a pair of malware removal tools.

April 2011 brings Easter, Anzac Day, a royal wedding... and an unusually busy Patch Tuesday from Microsoft.