Researchers have found three backdoors and four miners in attacks exploiting the Log4Shell vulnerability, some of which are still ongoing.
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Critical VMware Bugs Open ESXi, Fusion & Workstation to Attackers
A group of five security vulnerabilities could lead to a range of bad outcomes for virtual-machine enthusiasts, including command execution and DoS.
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Cybercriminals Actively Target VMware vSphere with Cryptominers
VMware’s container-based application development environment has become attractive to cyberattackers.
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Partially Unpatched VMware Bug Opens Door to Hypervisor Takeover
ESXi version 7 users are still waiting for a full fix for a high-severity heap-overflow security vulnerability, but Cloud Foundation, Fusion and Workstation users can go ahead and patch.
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VMware ESXi Servers Encrypted by Lightning-Fast Python Script
The little snippet of Python code strikes fast and nasty, taking less than three hours to complete a ransomware attack from initial breach to encryption.
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Linux Variant of HelloKitty Ransomware Targets VMware ESXi Servers
HelloKitty joins the growing list of ransomware bigwigs going after the juicy target of VMware ESXi, where one hit gets scads of VMs.
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