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Top 6 Rootkit Threats and How to Protect Yourself

eSecurity Planet

Any bugs or glitches in its programming leaves noticeable trails for antivirus software to track. This type of rootkit was developed as a proof of concept in 2006, but in 2017, researcher Joseph Connelly designed nested virtual machine rootkit CloudSkulk as part of his Masters degree work at Boise State University.

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Weathering Russian Winter: The Current State of Russian APTs

Security Boulevard

According to Richard Bejtlich’s paper on the topic , ‘the United States Air Force coined the phrase ‘advanced persistent threat’ in 2006 because teams working within the service needed a way to communicate with counterparts in the unclassified public world.’ Social engineering training. What Is An APT? Monitoring.