A driver containing rootkit malware was certified by Microsoft

A driver containing rootkit malware was certified by Microsoft – PC Gamer

Posted by djrogers on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:30PM
from the pcgamer.com dept.

https://www.pcgamer.com/a-driver-containing-rootkit-malware-was-certified-by-microsoft/

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Re:A driver containing rootkit malware was certified by Micr... by w4rh4wk5 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @02:12PM (#27679600)

VALORANT, a game developed by Riot Games, which is owned by Tencent, a big Chinese company, also comes with its own kernel-level anti-cheat. Concerns have been raised in the past, and these news do not help.

https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/fzxdl7/anticheat_...

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Re:A driver containing rootkit malware was certified by Micr... by ylor on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:04PM (#27680286)

I would like to play both Valorant and Genshin Impact but they both install kernel-level anti-cheat. :(

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Re:A driver containing rootkit malware was certified by Micr... by aksss on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @04:05PM (#27681030)

"Somehow, a driver called Netfilter that redirects traffic to an IP in China and installs a root certificate to the registry managed to make it through that testing without being detected as malware."

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Re:A driver containing rootkit malware was certified by Micr... by herbst on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @04:25AM (#27686263)

Amazing Microsoft. Doing good work as always to assure a secure operating system for the masses

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