rootkits and EDR software that use LKMs may employ techniques that hide their presence or prevent them from being unloaded–if an attacker manages to root a system, it would be very unfortunate if they could simply “rmmod security_software” then carry out their acts without preventions or detections.
prevent LKM unloading with rmmod
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