[pchelpers] News:Hacker writes rootkit for Cisco's routers

By Robert McMillan  , IDG News Service , 05/14/2008
A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for 
Cisco's routers, a development that has placed increasing scrutiny on 
the routers that carry the majority of the Internet's traffic.

Sebastian Muniz, a researcher with Core Security Technologies, developed 
the software, which he will unveil on May 22 at the EuSecWest conference 
in London.

Rootkits are stealthy programs that cover up their tracks on a computer, 
making them extremely hard to detect. To date, the vast majority of 
rootkits have been written for the Windows operating system, but this 
will mark the first time that someone has discussed a rootkit written 
for IOS, the Internetwork Operating System used by Cisco's routers. "An 
IOS rootkit is able to perform the tasks that any other rootkit would do 
on desktop computer operating systems," Muniz said in an e-mail interview.

More here:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/051408-hacker-writes-rootkit-for-ciscos.html?t51hb
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