Researcher demonstrates Cisco rootkit
Network Security · 2008
The EUSecWest conference was a troubling one for Cisco. Sebastian Muñiz, a researcher for Core Security Technologies, demonstrated a proof of concept rootkit designed to compromise the network vendor's IOS system, used on its switches and routers. The rootkit had a large footprint and would be easily detectable by anyone using the Cisco Information Retrieval toolkit, although future versions could possibly be engineered to hook the operating system functions relied on by the CIR, Muniz said.