Date: 06/28/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, virus

Sometime back Sony BMG released DRM rootkit software. At that time Sony insisted that no one should care about the Sony BMG rootkits because most people had no clue what rootkits were. Almost immediately a virus known as Ryknos, Breplibot or Stinx-Q was written to exploit Sony rootkit vulnerability. Ryknos allowed access to commercial information [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sony-rootkit-virus-writers-arrested/