Researchers believe rootkits will continue to be developed and used by cybercriminals, and in fact, PT ESC specialists have identified the emergence of new versions of rootkits, indicating that attackers continue to invent new techniques to bypass protection. A criminal’s advantages for using rootkits – executing code in privileged mode, being able to hide from security tools, and remaining online for long periods of time – are too important for attackers to reject these tools.

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