Researcher creates 100% undetectable malware

Posted on Friday, June 30 2006 @ 0:41 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
A security researcher has built a working prototype of a new type of 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.

Rutkowska plans to discuss the idea and demonstrate a working prototype for Windows Vista x64 at the SyScan Conference in Singapore on July 21 and at the Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas on Aug. 3.
More details at eWeek.


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