This research is a joint effort between Joakim Kennedy, Security Researcher at Intezer, and the BlackBerry Threat Research & Intelligence team. It can be found in the BlackBerry blog here as well. In biology, a symbiote is an organism that lives in symbiosis with another organism. The symbiosis can be mutually beneficial to both organisms, but sometimes it can be parasitic when one benefits and the other is harmed.
Link: Symbiote: A New, Nearly-Impossible-to-Detect Linux Threat
via http://www.intezer.com