A military-grade backdoor, ValleyRAT, saw an 85% surge after its builder was leaked. The kernel-mode rootkit bypasses Windows 11 defenses and is now a dangerous commodity for cybercriminals.
Kernel Rootkit
Elastic exposed Chinese threat actors exploiting public ASP.NET machine keys to deploy TOLLBOOTH IIS backdoor and HIDDENDRIVER kernel rootkit. The malware performs stealthy SEO cloaking.