Content Tagged ‘Vista’

Hasta La Vista, Bootkit: Exploiting the VBR

August 23, 2011 - Aleksandr Matrosov and Eugene Rodionov have documented an interesting variation on techniques used for x64 bootkit infections. Over to you, gentlemen… During the first half of 2011 we have witnessed a significant growth in malware targeting 64-bit platforms, the most interesting (continue reading...) Read more

1000 days of Conficker

August 17, 2011 - It has been 1,000 days since the Conficker worm first appeared on November 21, 2008.  For the first two months after its initial appearance we received a trickle of reports through our ThreatSense.NET telemetry system.  By January of (continue reading...) Read more

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