Older Cisco devices unpatched against a recent zero-day vulnerability have been infected with a rootkit in a new campaign.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that exploited a recently disclosed security flaw impacting Cisco IOS Software and IOS XE Software to deploy Linux rootkits on older, ...

The commands supported by LinkPro include executing /bin/bash in a pseudo-terminal, running a shell command, enumerating ...

Threat actors exploited a recently patched remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-20352) in Cisco networking devices ...

In the opening quarter of 2006, said McAfee in the first of a trilogy of reports on rootkits, its Avert Labs spotted more rootkit components in worms, Trojan horses, and spyware than in all of 2005.

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 with ...

The Kinsing malware operator is actively exploiting the CVE-2023-46604 critical vulnerability in the Apache ActiveMQ open-source message broker to compromise Linux systems. The flaw allows remote code ...

Home alone after school one day, Tommy scans through the latest blogs and teen Web sites, stopping for a chat or two. Somewhere along the way, the computer’s browser hits a site that instantly and ...

Researchers from security firm Trusteer have found a new variant of the Gozi banking Trojan program that infects a computer’s Master Boot Record (MBR) in order to achieve persistence. The Master Boot ...

Clickjacking rootkits could pose the next big threat for the Android platform, according to a research team out of North Carolina State University. Led by computer science professor Xuxian Jiang, the ...