Lazarus Group

Covert malware targets VMware for hypervisor-level espionage Emerging covert malware families that target VMware environments could allow criminals to gain persistent administrative access to the hypervisor, transfer files, and execute arbitrary commands between virtual machines, according to VMware and Mandiant, which discovered the software nasty earlier this year. The now-Google-owned threat intel team attributed the intrusions to an uncategorized group it calls UNC3886 and says it suspects the criminals' motivation to be espionage. It also asserts "with…