Raising the bar: Rustock and advances in rootkits

2006-09-01

Elia Florio

Symantec Security Response, Ireland

Prashant Pathak

Symantec Security Response, USA
Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Recently a new type of rootkit was discovered in the wild and it is unique given the techniques it uses. Elia Florio and Prashant Pathak take an indepth look at Backdoor.Rustock.A.

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