It isn’t as if we didn’t see it coming
The MBR rootkit has been in the news a bit lately. Packing ancient evil, the beast modifies the MBR (Master Boot Record) to bootstrap itself and to rootkit the whole Operating System.
The rootkit carries code taken from the BootRoot proof-of-concept rootkit that was published by a few researchers from eEye. How many of you can raise a hand and say that you’re surprised of this? Creating malicious code for whatever purpose is not responsible. Even less responsible is distributing it so that anyone can access it.
You could argue that the MBR rootkit was coming anyway. Sure, might be. But did the makers of it get off easier? Hell yes, so why aid them?