Hacker Defender stops working

The author of Hacker Defender - a website that specializes in revenue from rootkit tools - decided to stop all business activities.

Hacker Defender - an open-source Windows rootkit - has become very popular among security researchers around the world and is known as the most widely distributed rootkits on the Internet.

Most generally, rootkits are tools to help hackers hide all activities in the eyes of users and administrators. Hacker Defender has the ability to modify some Windows functions and the Native API function to allow hackers to hide files, streams or other types of information before the eyes of security applications.

Security firm F-Secure said the rootkit also opened a backdoor and installed a port switch (port redirector) that made it difficult to detect the tailgate with traditional methods such as remote port scanning.

For over a year now, the website Hacker Defender has been based on this version of the rootkit tool and provides free versions of open source tools. However, last week the author of this site decided to end all activities of the site.

The author of the tool Hacker Defender said that the development of this rootkit is to encourage the industry to entice to help protect users. "We have proven that today 's rootkit detection measures are not good and are half implemented."

And security firm F-Secure said that the hacking of the Hacker Defender website is good news for users. But the fact that the site stops working doesn't mean that the Hacker Defender rootkit will disappear. Users still need to be careful.

" Backdoor.Win32.Hacdef is an open source rootkit so make sure we discover many new variants of this tool ."

Experts have recently discovered a business program based on dangerous tools that attack computer users like Hacker Defender.

HVD - (Techworld)