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Meet 'Rakshasa,' The Malware Infection Designed To Be Undetectable And Incurable
Researcher Jonathan Brossard has innovated a uniquely nasty coding trick: A strain of malware that’s nearly impossible to disinfect.
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas Thursday, Brossard plans to present a paper (PDF here) on “Rakshasa,” a piece of proof-of-concept malware that aims to be a “permanent backdoor” in a PC, one that’s very difficult to detect, and even harder to remove.
Nothing to alarmed at, unless hardware manufacturer's decide to deliberately want to create a backdoor in PCs .....
Researcher Jonathan Brossard has innovated a uniquely nasty coding trick: A strain of malware that’s nearly impossible to disinfect.
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas Thursday, Brossard plans to present a paper (PDF here) on “Rakshasa,” a piece of proof-of-concept malware that aims to be a “permanent backdoor” in a PC, one that’s very difficult to detect, and even harder to remove.
Nothing to alarmed at, unless hardware manufacturer's decide to deliberately want to create a backdoor in PCs .....
