Rootkits are scary and becoming a larger and larger menace to our computers every day. In the past if our computers were infected with a piece of malware, we simply removed it and we were clean of the ...

In the past malware infections typically consisted of worms, trojans, backdoors, and viruses that were easily detected, and for the most part, removed. To make an anti-virus program's job more ...

Editor’s note: Microsoft clarified its MBR rootkit removal advice after this story was posted. Microsoft is telling Windows users that they’ll have to reinstall the operating system if they get ...

Researchers have unpacked a major cybersecurity find—a malicious UEFI-based rootkit used in the wild since 2016 to ensure computers remained infected even if an operating system is reinstalled or a ...