Advanced

Stealthy, tricky to remove rootkit targets Linux systems on ARM and x86

Posted by abennett on
CSOonline.com; By Lucian Constantin
Mail this story
Print this story

Called Umbreon, after a Pokémon character that hides in the darkness, the rootkit has been in development since early 2015 and is now being sold on the underground markets. It targets Linux-based systems on the x86, x86-64 and ARM architectures, including many embedded devices such as routers.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story, Security; Groups: Community

» Get new stories by e-mail: nightly or as they are published

« Return to the newswire homepage

  Related stories
» More like this

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.