Malware, Rootkits & Botnets A Beginner's Guide

CHAPTER 1 Getting In Gear

We’ll Cover

  A brief overview of the current threat landscape

  Malware as a threat to national security

This chapter serves as a brief introduction to get us started into our journey into malware, rootkits, and botnets. To get us in gear, I will discuss my first encounter with malware that triggered a curiosity in me that still continues today in my career as a reverse engineer and a malware researcher. Then the chapter gives a brief overview of the current threat landscape and a short discussion on the threat malware ...