Intezer’s Joakim Kennedy and the Blackberry Research and Intelligence Team discovered that the threat presents as a shared object library (SO) rather than a typical executable file.
Why it matters: Earlier this week, researchers from Blackberry and Intezer released information on a hard-to-detect Linux malware targeting Latin American financial institutions. Known as Symbiote, the threat provides unauthorized users with the ability to harvest credentials or assume remote access to the target machine. Once infected, all malware is hidden and rendered undetectable. Intezer’s Joakim Kennedy and the Blackberry Research and Intelligence Team discovered that the threat presents as a shared object library (SO) rather than a typical executable file that users must run to infect a host.
