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Rootkit Creators Turn Professional
pete richards writes "Signalling a trend towards increased 'outsourcing' of some elements of malware creation, worm authors are increasingly turning to commercially available rootkits to help their creations slip past virus detection engines. Those root kits in the mean time are becoming more professional. Antivirus vendor F-Secure reported last week that it had detected a first rootkit designed to bypass detection by most of the modern rootkit detection engines."
They sell cocaine openly on the web?
In other news, we learn that script kiddies don't actually write software.
I'd have thought 450 euros (see here, select "Golden Hacker Defender" from combo box) was a bit beyond the price range of your average copy/paste script kiddies, but then I've never met any so I wouldn't know. Either way, it's not clear to me that the site is breaking any laws by selling this software. Any lawyers around?
What's next, Virus Writers Monthly?
How about this?
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire