{"id":2415,"date":"2008-11-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/28\/rootkit-unearthed-in-network-security-software\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:41:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:41:18","slug":"rootkit-unearthed-in-network-security-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/28\/rootkit-unearthed-in-network-security-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Rootkit unearthed in network security software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Network security software from a Chinese developer includes processes deliberately hidden from a user and, even worse, a hidden directory, Trend Micro reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trend Micro has written to the software developers involved in what looks like a case of misguided software design, rather than anything worse.<\/p>\n<p>Pending a fix from software developers, Trend Micro has slapped a &#8220;hacking tool&#8221; warning on the rootkit-like component of the network security tool (called HKTL-BRUDEVIC).<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t name the developers except to say they are the same firm which bundles rootkit-like software with USB storage devices featuring fingerprint authentication.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/11\/28\/network_security_rootkit\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4902,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions\/4902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}