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Stealth Technology On the Rise
By: Sharon Khare   |   Apr 18, 2006
Security Company McAfee, has said that the use of stealth technologies to conceal both malware and commercially viable Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) is on the rise.

McAfee also blames the "open-source" environment, along with online collaboration sites and blogs, for the increased proliferation and complexity of rootkits. The company considers malicious programs using stealth technology to be rootkits, distinct from commercial applications that use stealth technology.

McAfee says that the sudden rise of stealth technologies may be due to online collaborative research efforts using Web sites that contain hundreds of lines of rootkit code, available for recompiling, adapting, and improving, along with rootkit binary executables.

With the availability of rootkit code and stealth creation kits, malware authors can more easily hide processes, files, and registry keys, without detailed knowledge of the target operating system. Their popularity has grown beyond malware into mainstream commercial software, with some security software vendors and consumer electronics firms recently being 'outed' for using stealth technologies in their products.

The number of rootkits submitted to McAfee Avert Labs in the first quarter of 2006 compared to the first quarter of 2005 increased by nearly 700% while the number of Windows-based stealth components dominate the landscape, with an increase of 2300% from 2001 to 2005.
 
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