Vitriol: The VT-x Rootkit - Another VM Rootkit
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006We all remember Joanna Rutkowska and the Bluepill Rootkit she demonstrated at the Black Hat conference a few months ago. She demonstrated how a rootkit could be installed using the Hardware Virtualisation provided with an AMD chip. Well now we have a new VM Rootkit called Vitriol which was developed by security specialist Dino Dai Zovi.
Dino will demonstrate Vitrol at Microsoft’s Blue Hat conference in late October.
Vitriol is a VM rootkit for MacOS X using Intel VT-x on Intel Core Duo/Solo. Dino has provided us with a PDF document of the slides he will use at the Blue Hat Conference which by the way is only open to selected security specialists.
Keep Safe
regards
Steo
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