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fromtheregister
16 hours ago

VMware quietly debuts Arm hypervisor tech preview

VMware ESXi technology preview enables running RHEL, Ubuntu, and SUSE guests on Arm servers using Nvidia Grace and Ampere processors.
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fromZero Day Initiative
3 days ago

Zero Day Initiative - Pwn2Own Berlin 2026: Day Three Results and Master of Pwn

Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 day three features SharePoint and ESXi targets, with $908,750 awarded for 39 zero-days so far and strong odds to exceed $1M.
fromThe Hacker News
4 months ago

China-Linked Hackers Exploit VMware ESXi Zero-Days to Escape Virtual Machines

Chinese-speaking threat actors are suspected to have leveraged a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance as an initial access vector to deploy a VMware ESXi exploit that may have been developed as far back as February 2024. Cybersecurity firm Huntress, which observed the activity in December 2025 and stopped it before it could progress to the final stage, said it may have resulted in a ransomware attack.
Information security
fromTheregister
4 months ago

China crew abused ESXi zero-days a year before disclosure

Chinese-linked cybercriminals were sitting on a working VMware ESXi hypervisor escape kit more than a year before the bugs it relied on were made public. That's according to researchers at Huntress, who this week published a breakdown of an intrusion they observed in December 2025 in which a "sophisticated" toolkit was used to break out of virtual machines and target the ESXi hypervisor itself.
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fromTechzine Global
5 months ago

Ransomware increasingly targeting hypervisors

Attackers increasingly target hypervisors (VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V) to compromise entire virtual environments, enabling large-scale ransomware impact by controlling the virtualization layer.
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fromThe Hacker News
9 months ago

Scattered Spider Hijacks VMware ESXi to Deploy Ransomware on Critical U.S. Infrastructure

Scattered Spider targets VMware ESXi hypervisors, employing social engineering to bypass security measures and conduct precise, campaign-driven attacks.
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