Execs say that the newly acquired technology provided by the Komoku purchase allows businesses to better respond to the increased use of rootkits as an attack tool to their networks and systems. The ...

Microsoft has acquired Komoku, maker of rootkit detection products. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Komoku creates both hardware and software approaches to rootkit detection.

Microsoft Corp. hopes to beef up its security capabilities with the acquisition of Komoku Inc., a developer of rootkit-detection products. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. With the deal ...

The detectors themselves typically work by comparing different views of the system and seeing where there's a mismatch. One of the original ways to perform this kind of detection was to dump a ...

A newly discovered rootkit may not be particularly threatening in itself, but its unique method of concealment could pave the way for more malicious exploits, researchers say. Symantec and F-Secure ...

Malware exists in different flavors. Most of the time, malware consists of malicious files stored in computers operating systems, just like any other file, and running as software with or without high ...

Rootkits are still a security scanner’s worst nightmare: New rootkit detection tests recently conducted by AV-Test.org found that security suites and online Web scanners detected overall only a little ...

Rootkits are a particularly hazardous threat. Unlike typical viruses, they are engineered to be invisible to the user. Such malicious apps often give attackers complete control of the gadget. For ...

A new Linux rootkit malware named ‘Syslogk’ is being used in attacks to hide malicious processes, using specially crafted "magic packets" to awaken a backdoor laying dormant on the device. The malware ...