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Friday, November 28, 2008
Rootkit unearthed in network security software
Network security software from a Chinese developer includes processes deliberately hidden from a user and, even worse, a hidden directory, Trend Micro reports.
Trend Micro has written to the software developers involved in what looks like a case of misguided software design, rather than anything worse.
Pending a fix from software developers, Trend Micro has slapped a “hacking tool” warning on the rootkit-like component of the network security tool (called HKTL-BRUDEVIC).
It doesn’t name the developers except to say they are the same firm which bundles rootkit-like software with USB storage devices featuring fingerprint authentication.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/28/network_security_rootkit/