Two threat analysts- Augusto Remillano II and Jakub Urbanec uncovers a Linux malware that keeps its cryptocurrency mining operations hidden. This was published in a post on Trend Micro, a security intelligence blog. It's a prominent malware because of the way it loads malicious kernel modules to hide its cryptocurrency mining operations. Skidmap hides the cryptocurrency mining activity which makes its malware components undetectable by the infected system’s monitoring tools.