Tag: hypervisor

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VMware zero-day exploited since at least late 2021

VMware zero-day exploited since at least late 2021

A Chinese hacker group has been exploiting a zero-day in the vCenter Server since at least late 2021. The hackers managed to deploy backdoors on ESXi hosts through the vulnerability and leak data from organisations in critical sectors. Mandiant revealed that the perpetrator behind the cyber camp... Read more

date2 months ago
VMware ESXi servers vulnerable to Akira ransomware

VMware ESXi servers vulnerable to Akira ransomware

VMware ESXi servers worldwide fall prey to Akira ransomware. These VMware virtual machines are a popular target for cybercriminals. Through a Linux encryptor, cybercriminals can infect ESXi servers with the Akira ransomware. Companies around the world are vulnerable to the attack. Victims can n... Read more

date9 months ago
Google Cloud now supports VMware ESXi hypervisor

Google Cloud now supports VMware ESXi hypervisor

Google is now offering support for the VMware EXSi hypervisor for its Google Cloud Engine. According to the announcement by Google Cloud on its Open Source blog, end users can now choose the VMware ESXi hypervisor for running the Google Cloud Engine. The latter solution could previously only r... Read more

date1 year ago
Cybercriminals hijack VMware ESXi with never-before-seen technique

Cybercriminals hijack VMware ESXi with never-before-seen technique

A never-before-seen attack method allows cybercriminals to infiltrate VMware ESXi hypervisors. A report from security firm Mandiant reveals that the technique was used by an unknown threat actor to attack organizations in the wild. VMware ESXi is one of the world's most widely used hypervisors.... Read more

date1 year ago
Update: VMware collects data through ESXi-Arm Fling hypervisor

Update: VMware collects data through ESXi-Arm Fling hypervisor

VMware's ESXi-Arm Fling Arm hypervisor provides monitoring data to VMware since the latest update. The hypervisor shares diagnostic data once a week. ESXi-Arm Fling is a hypervisor for Arm-based processors in public cloud environments, such as the Ampere Ultra processors. The hypervisor is expe... Read more

date2 years ago
The Linux Foundation welcomes Cloud Hypervisor

The Linux Foundation welcomes Cloud Hypervisor

The cloud-based VMM is the latest in open source software, and the Linux Foundation has taken it up for hosting. Cloud Hypervisor is the latest open-source software released for organizations looking to improve their cloud computing and storage practices. The Linux Foundation is hosting this sof... Read more

date2 years ago
Citrix XenServer is now Citrix Hypervisor.

Citrix XenServer is now Citrix Hypervisor.

Citrix is rebranding XenServer. The latest version of Xen Server is called Citrix Hypervisor, and it also brings some under-the-hood changes. Last year, Citrix announced that it wanted to rebrand its hypervisor software. Before that, however, the virtualisation specialist waited for version 8.0, whi... Read more

date5 years ago
VMware disconnects NSX software from VMware hypervisor

VMware disconnects NSX software from VMware hypervisor

VMware claims to have rolled out the most significant upgrade ever to its NSX network virtualisation software. With the upgrade, the network is disconnected from the VMware hypervisor, reports Silicon Angle. Hypervisor is the software that runs virtual machines. NSX-T Data Center 2.4 and NSX Cloud ... Read more

date5 years ago