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Top 6 Rootkit Threats and How to Protect Yourself

eSecurity Planet

First discovered in 2010, Stuxnet was used to severely disrupt Iran’s nuclear facilities, apparently in an effort to halt the nation’s development of an atomic bomb. The ZeroAccess botnet, discovered in 2011, hit systems hard with fraudulent advertising clicks and Bitcoin mining malware, infecting at least 9 million computers worldwide.