Hackers Serve Rootkits with Bagles

Malicious hackers have fitted rootkit features into the newest mutants of the Bagle worm, adding a stealthy new danger to an already virulent threat.

According to virus hunters at F-Secure, of Helsinki, Finland, the latest Bagle.GE variant loads a kernel-mode driver to hide the processes and registry keys of itself and other Bagle-related malware from security scanners. Hackers Serve Rootkits with Bagles

Linked by shanmuga Wednesday, 29th March 2006 11:02PM