{"id":9075,"date":"2006-07-17T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9075"},"modified":"2006-07-17T02:04:08","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T02:04:08","slug":"invisible-rootkit-heralds-trouble-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9075","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Invisible&#8217; Rootkit Heralds Trouble Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uh-oh. And I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/blog_view.html?CID=23011\" target=\"new\">quote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Security researchers have discovered a new type of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rootkit\" target=\"new\">rootkit<\/a> they believe will greatly increase the difficulty of detecting and removing malicious code.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The rootkit in question, called Backdoor.Rustock.A by Symantec and Mailbot.AZ by F-Secure, uses advanced techniques to avoid detection by most rootkit detectors.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The rootkit is &#8220;unique given the techniques it uses,&#8221; Symantec\u2019s Elia Florio wrote in a recent analysis. &#8220;It can be considered the first-born of the next generation of rootkits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Rustock.A uses a mixture of old techniques and new ideas to make it &#8220;totally invisible on a compromised computer when installed,&#8221; including a beta version of Windows Vista, Florio wrote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> [via CIO Tech Informer]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uh-oh. And I quote: &#8220;Security researchers have discovered a new type of rootkit they believe will greatly increase the difficulty of detecting and removing malicious code. &#8220;The rootkit in question, called Backdoor.Rustock.A by Symantec and Mailbot.AZ by F-Secure, uses advanced techniques to avoid detection by most rootkit detectors. &#8220;The rootkit is &#8220;unique given the techniques &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9075\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Invisible&#8217; Rootkit Heralds Trouble Ahead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}