McAfee recently released a 16 page report "Rootkits Part 2: A Technical Primer". It is worth a read, especially for the last sections of the document "Payload techniques: proof of concept:.
There the authors Aditya Kapoor and Ahmed Sallam paint the picture of new forms of attacks, not yet documented in the wild, but ones they feel will become common in the future. This includes virtual memory subversion, SubVirt, Blue Pill, raw network manipulation, firmware and hardware manipulation and advanced configuration and power interface manipulation.
Bottom line: Expect lots more trouble, security breaches and costs of cleanup as these attacks become common.
Guy
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