ORLANDO – If your system gets infiltrated by a rootkit, you might as well just “waste the system entirely,” a Microsoft official told fellow security professionals last week at the annual InfoSec ...

Microsoft has updated a zero-day exploit in its AppLocker application whitelisting software, but not before the North Korean state-backed Lazarus Group was able to leverage the flaw to pull off a ...

North Korean threat actors known as the Lazarus Group exploited a flaw in the Windows AppLocker driver (appid.sys) as a zero-day to gain kernel-level access and turn off security tools, allowing them ...

Rootkits are the not-so-secret, yet increasingly sophisticated weapon of online criminals targeting Windows users even before their computer boots up, with the Mebroot / Sinowal / Torpig rootkit ...

A new campaign targeting gaming users in China is the latest example of how threat actors are increasingly using sophisticated rootkits to hide malicious payloads, disable security tools, and maintain ...