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Covert malware targets VMware for hypervisor-level espionage – VMware, Mandiant track back operators, finding ties to China 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. …