Researchers at Symantec have released details of a new malware they discovered and named Daxin, which has links to Chinese threat actors. The malware is a Windows kernel driver that is designed to penetrate networks that have been hardened against cyber-attacks. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) also released details about the malware and claimed it has been used to target select governments and other critical infrastructure. Daxin is a rootkit backdoor which allows threat actors to gain root access to networks. It has a stealthy Command-and-Control (C2) function and burrows into targets’ networks and exfiltrates data without raising…