The core firmware rootkit needs to be very small in order to fit in the limited memory space on the hard drive’s memory chips. It’s only a few KB in size, but that doesn’t stop it from ...

When combined with Web threats, the new rootkit is proving to be both a destructive and prolific combination, security experts say. The rootkit models a similar virus from several years ago but ...

Security firm Eclypsium has uncovered a weakness in the Microsoft Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT) in Windows 8 and 10 Researchers at cyber security firm Eclypsium have uncovered a weakness in ...

Researchers from Kaspersky have discovered a new kind of powerful Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware rootkit known as CosmicStrand, which they attribute to an unidentified ...