November 10, 2005

First Trojan using Sony DRM spotted

Sony-BMG’s rootkit DRM technology which masks files whose filenames start with “$sys$”, has been taken advantage of. A newly-discovered variant of of the Breplibot Trojan is using the mask to hide the file “$sys$drv.exe” in the Windows system directory.

Well it was bound to happen. When are we going to stop tolerating this stuff? [...]