Linux Pluggable Authentication Module News Today

Symbiote, discovered in November, parasitically infects running processes so it can steal credentials, gain rootlkit functionality and install a backdoor for remote access.

Symbiote is deployed as a shared object that can inject itself into existing processes, making it difficult to detect.

Security researchers with BlackBerry and Intezer have shared details on a new Linux malware that “parasitically” infects all running processes on a target machine.

Symbiote is deployed as a shared object that can inject itself into existing processes, making it difficult to detect.