Malware gets its own version of stealth technology...
This is just great, just when the Internet security sector was getting pc reasonably locked down comes along Malware that is "100 percent undetectable". There is nothing new about stealth programs that are not detectable on PCs, ala "Spying" programs that are commonly used by private investigators. What is new is the ability to completely control an operating system.
The good news is if your running anything from Norton or MacAfee you would never find it anyways... :)
"A security researcher with expertise in rootkits has built a working prototype of new technology that is capable of creating malware that remains "100 percent undetectable," even on Windows Vista x64 systems.
Joanna Rutkowska, a stealth malware researcher at Singapore-based IT security firm COSEINC, says the new Blue Pill concept uses AMD's SVM/Pacifica virtualization technology to create an ultra-thin hypervisor that takes complete control of the underlying operating system."
Read all about it here, courtesy of EWeek.com:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1983037,00.asp
-Eric
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