Lowjax city: Researchers crack open notorious Fancy Bear rootkit

The Fancy Bear hacking group's Lojax rootkit is far from a one-off tool, and may have been active in the wild for years before it was first reported. This is according to an analysis from Netscout's ASERT team, which took a deep dive into not only the malware itself, but also its command-and-control network and associated …

[GnuTzu]

Infecting Security Tools

Of course it's sick; it's also to be expected.

[Spudley]

Yo dawg, I heard you liked root, so I rooted your rootkit.

[W.S.Gosset]

Heh

As an Australian, with our peculiarly Australian slang term "root", this made me:

A/ chuckle

B/ glad I was sitting down

[Anonymous Coward]

Low profile and discrete activity over a few years sounds like a government operation to me

[W.S.Gosset]

or a now-ex girlfriend