Crates, cargo-wdk, and kernel hooks show progress, but hurdles remain Developers keen to write Windows drivers in Rust now ...

Yet, despite those problems, it's the most refined version of the company's operating system, regardless of the unsavory ...

Device Driver Types – Kernel & User Drivers There are device drivers for almost every device associated with a computer – from BIOS to even virtual machines and more.

Also, user/kernel-mode transitions usually impose a considerable performance overhead, thereby violates the low-latency and high-throughput requirements of data-path applications. In the rest of this ...

Signed kernel drivers – Unguarded gateway to Windows’ core ESET researchers look at malware that abuses vulnerabilities in kernel drivers and outline mitigation techniques against this type of ...

The ALPHV ransomware group (aka BlackCat) was observed employing signed malicious Windows kernel drivers to evade detection by security software during attacks.

Microsoft blocked code signing certificates predominantly used by Chinese hackers and developers to sign and load malicious kernel mode drivers on breached systems by exploiting a Windows policy ...

A new interface for implementing device drivers outside the kernel has one project saving about 5,000 lines of code.