Return of the Festi Rootkit
Festi, a once popular rootkit is back in the wild, distributed mainly by the RIG exploit kit. A long known Windows rootkit, Festi dates back to 2009 where at that time it served as a bot, forming a large and successful botnet utilized both for DDoS and distribution of spam mails. It was previously researched […]
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