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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 examples of which are bootkits. There are now several malware families in the wild: Win64/Olmarik, […]

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In the last few days experts at Kaspersky Lab have detected new samples of the malicious program MAX++ (aka ZeroAccess). This Trojan first achieved notoriety for using advanced rootkit technology to hide its presence in a system. Back then, MAX++ only worked on x86 platforms; now it is capable of functioning on x64 systems! Computers […]

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