From the course: CompTIA Security+ (SY0-601) Cert Prep: 1 Threats, Attacks, and Vulnerabilities
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Looking at advanced malware
From the course: CompTIA Security+ (SY0-601) Cert Prep: 1 Threats, Attacks, and Vulnerabilities
Looking at advanced malware
- [Instructor] Malware authors are often talented, sophisticated software developers who understand the methods that security professionals use to detect and prevent malware attacks. This leads them to develop advanced techniques that allow them to escape detection and bypass traditional anti-malware defenses. Let's talk about two advanced malware concepts, rootkits and fileless viruses. The root account is a special super user account on systems that provides unrestricted access to that system's resources. The root account is normally reserved for system administrators, but it's also the ultimate goal of many hackers to get root. Rootkits are a type of malware that originally were designed for privilege escalation. A hacker would gain access to a normal user account on a system, and then use a rootkit to gain root or escalate the normal user access to unrestricted superuser access. The term rootkit has evolved over the…
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