Trend Micro Rootkit Buster scanner app banned after cheating on Microsoft’s driver certification test

In a case of asking who watches the watchers, security company Trend Micro has been discovered cheating on Microsoft's kernel driver security test suite. The kernel driver in question, tmcomm.sys, appears to detect Microsoft's WHQL test suite, and change its behaviour to be more compliant, in particular only accessing Windows 10's non-executable non-paged pool of […]

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