ESET is seeing a new step of evolution for the Rovnix bootkit family.

ESET researchers examine the evolution of bootkit threats targeting 64-bit Windows over 2011.

…you can probably guess what I think about the idea of an undetectable virus…

I've stopped maintaining Stuxnet resource pages recently, but occasionally I come across an article that adds something useful to the mix, or simply summarizes aspects of the Stuxnet story neatly and accurately. Besides, its authors must be feeling a little left out with all that fuss about TDL4. ;-) A recent report in Wired gives

I don’t think there’s such a thing as an indestructible botnet. TDSS is somewhat innovative. It’s introduced new twists on old ideas like P2P networks and hiding malware.

Recently … our TDL tracker picked up a brand new plugin for TDL4 kad.dll (Win32/Olmarik.AVA) which we haven’t seen earlier … we discovered that it implements a particularly interesting network communication protocol …

…Aleks and Eugene released a new version of the tool they developed in the course of their research into the TDL family…

My colleague Aleks Matrosov has come across an interesting if uncomfortable post on a Russian language forum, advertising a "Boot loader for drivers" currently under test that doesn't require a Digital Signature driver, which sounds very much like our old friend TDL4. This metamorphic malware (each build generates a fresh binary) loads before the start of PatchGuard. It's

…Aleksandr Matrosov and Eugene Rodionov recently delivered a presentation on “Defeating x64: The Evolution of the TDL Rootkit” at Confidence 2011, in Krakow, and now available on our white papers page…

Our colleagues Aleksandr Matrosov and Eugene Rodionov are tracking the evolution of TDL4 (also known as Win32/Olmarik). The following is a report on the latest TDL4 update, released last week. In our previous blog post, we described how the latest Microsoft Security Update modified the Windows OS loader (winloader.exe) to fix a vulnerability that allowed