The latest incarnation of the TDL3 rootkit is capable of infecting x64 systems. Ironically enough, the basic techniques used to achieve this are positively ancient by the computing world’s standards, having been perfected in the MS-DOS age.
Threat research
Outsourcing malware development to legitimate coders may be a losing tactic for criminals – if only it could be exploited.
Google has added the free Bitdefender Quickscan security tool to its Chrome extensions library.
Development may be slowing down, but TDL3, possibly the biggest rootkit threat of the year, is not entirely static and in fact seems to have added self-defense features recently. Are the creators of infamous TDL3 rootkit running out of steam? Well...