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Dark Reading
Wide use and lack of support for malware detection technologies has made VMware's virtualization technology a prime target for cyberattackers.
Dark Reading
It's not just Internet-accessible hosts that are vulnerable, researchers say.
ZDNet Security
VMware and cybersecurity authorities warn enterprises to update ESXi hypervisors to supported versions amid widespread ransomware attacks.
Dark Reading
The fresh "ESXiArgs" malware is exploiting a 2-year-old RCE security vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2021-21974), resulting in thousands of unpatched servers falling prey to the campaign.
The Hacker News
Threat actors have been found deploying never-before-seen post-compromise implants in VMware's virtualization software to seize control of infected systems and evade detection. Google's Mandiant threat intelligence division referred to it as a "novel malware ecosystem" that impacts VMware ESXi, Linux vCenter servers, and Windows virtual machines, allowing attackers to maintain persistent access
Dark Reading
China-based threat actor used poisoned vSphere Installation Bundles to deliver multiple backdoors on systems, security vendor says.
The Register
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.…
Bleeping Computer
Google has announced the public preview of a new Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD) system that can detect cryptocurrency miners and other malware without the need for software agents. [...]
ThreatPost
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.
The Hacker News
Virtualizor said hackers used a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack to divert Softaculous traffic. The hackers then used the diverted update traffic to deliver a malicious Virtualizor package to some installations. A hosting-provider account separately said 5 of its 34 checked Virtualizor hypervisors sustained root-level compromise. The incident window ran from approximately August 28 at 20:57