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07 December 2023

Symbiote: A New, Nearly-Impossible-to-Detect Linux Threat

What makes Symbiote different from other Linux malware that we usually come across, is that it needs to infect other running processes to inflict damage on infected machines.
The earliest detection of Symbiote is from November 2021, and it appears to have been written to target the financial sector in Latin America. Once the malware has infected a machine, it hides itself and any other malware used by the threat actor, making infections very hard to detect.
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