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MBR Rootkit: new tricks added


Since the beginning of this year, a new kind of rootkit has been discovered in the wild. The MBR rootkit, the rootkit that affects Master Boot Record to hide itself inside Windows, has enticed the security industry and sparked many conversations on the future of malicious software because of its new approach never used before if not for some proof of concepts.

After three months, the gang behind this infection changed the malware code more and more times, trying to better hide their creature. Firstly they introduced a driver to overwrite MBR instead of using simple Win32 subsystem APIs. By this way they tried to bypass some poor HIPS protections that would detect low level disk access behavior. MBR Rootkit: new tricks added





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