New Rust-based Ransomware Family Targets Windows, Linux, and ESXi Systems — The Hacker News

Kaspersky security researchers have disclosed details of a brand-new ransomware family written in Rust, making it the third strain after BlackCat and Hive to use the programming language. Luna, as it's called, is "fairly simple" and can run on Windows, Linux, and ESXi systems, with the malware...

Luna and Black Basta — new ransomware for Windows, Linux and ESXi

Introduction In our crimeware reporting service, we analyze the latest crime-related trends we come across. If we look back at what we covered last month, we will see that ransomware surprise, surprise! definitely stands out. In this blog post, we provide several excerpts from last months reports...

Fedora: Security Advisory for golang-github-vmware-govmomi (FEDORA-2022-3969b64d4b)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2022 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

VMware ESXi 安全漏洞

VMware ESXi is a suite of server virtualization platforms from VMware that can be installed directly on physical servers. VMware ESXi ESXi70U1b-17168206 - A security vulnerability exists in ESXi version 670-20211104001, which stems from an unprotected alternative channel to return branch target...

Vulnerabilities fixed in VMWare products

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in several VMware products. The vulnerabilities allow a malicious party to carry out attacks execute attacks that result in the following categories of damage: Cross-Site Request Forgery XSRF. Access to system data A malicious person with administrator access to a...

VMware ESXi addresses Return-Stack-Buffer-Underflow and Branch Type Confusion vulnerabilities

3. Return-Stack-Buffer-Underflow CVE-2022-29901, CVE-2022-28693, CVE-2022-26373 and Branch Type Confusion CVE-2022-23816, CVE-2022-23825 vulnerabilities VMware ESXi contains Return-Stack-Buffer-Underflow CVE-2022-29901, CVE-2022-28693, CVE-2022-26373 and Branch Type Confusion CVE-2022-23816,...

VMware ESXi addresses Return-Stack-Buffer-Underflow and Branch Type Confusion vulnerabilities

3. Return-Stack-Buffer-Underflow CVE-2022-29901, CVE-2022-28693, CVE-2022-26373 and Branch Type Confusion CVE-2022-23816, CVE-2022-23825 vulnerabilities VMware ESXi contains Return-Stack-Buffer-Underflow CVE-2022-29901, CVE-2022-28693, CVE-2022-26373 and Branch Type Confusion CVE-2022-23816,...

VMSA-2022-0020:VMware ESXi addresses Return-Stack-Buffer-UnderfLOW and Branch Type Confusion vulnerabilities

Advisory ID: VMSA-2022-0020.2 CVSSv3 Range: 5.6 Issue Date:2022-07-12 Updated On: 2022-10-25 CVEs: CVE-2022-29901, CVE-2022-28693, CVE-2022-23816, CVE-2022-23825, CVE-2022-26373 Synopsis: VMware ESXi addresses Return-Stack-Buffer-Underflow and Branch Type Confusion vulnerabilities RSS Feed Downlo...

Fedora: Security Advisory for golang-github-vmware-govmomi (FEDORA-2022-fae3ecee19)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2022 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

VMSA-2022-0016:VMware ESXi addresses DirectPath I/O (PCI-Passthrough) Information Leak vulnerabilities

Advisory ID: VMSA-2022-0016 CVSSv3 Range: 3.8 Issue Date:2022-06-14 Updated On: 2022-06-14 Initial Advisory CVEs: CVE-2022-21123, CVE-2022-21125, CVE-2022-21166 Synopsis: VMware ESXi addresses DirectPath I/O PCI-Passthrough Information Leak vulnerabilities CVE-2022-21123, CVE-2022-21125,...

BlackBasta is the latest ransomware to target ESXi virtual machines on Linux

BlackBasta, an alleged subdivision of the ransomware group Conti, just began supporting the encryption of VMwares ESXi virtual machines VM installed on enterprise Linux servers. Because more and more organizations have begun using VMs for cost-effectiveness and easier management of devices, this...

5 Linux malware families SMBs should protect themselves against

There’s no shortage of reasons why an SMB might use Linux to run their business: There are plenty of distros to choose from, it’s generally free, and perhaps above all — it’s secure. The common wisdom goes that Linux malware is rare, and for the most part this is true. Thanks to its built-in...

New Linux-Based Ransomware Cheerscrypt Targets ESXi Devices

Trend Micro Research detected “Cheerscrypt”, a new Linux-based ransomware variant that compromises ESXi servers. We discuss our initial findings on in this report...

New Linux-Based Ransomware Cheerscrypt Targeting ESXi Devices Linked to Leaked Babuk Source Code

New findings showed that Cheerscrypt, a new Linux-based ransomware variant that compromises ESXi servers, was derived from the leaked Babuk source code. We discuss our analysis in this report...

GHSA-W589-R335-4F55 SaltStack Salt Improper Certificate Validation

In SaltStack Salt before 3002.5, authentication to VMware vcenter, vsphere, and esxi servers in the vmware.py files does not always validate the SSL/TLS certificate...

Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi affect IBM Cloud Pak System (CVE-2021-21994, CVE-2021-21995)

Summary Vulnerabilties in VMware ESXi affect IBM Cloud Pak System. IBM Cloud Pak System has addressed these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2021-21994 DESCRIPTION: VMware ESXI could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper authentication in SFCB...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus Authenticated RCE This module is pretty exciting for us because it's for a vulnerability discovered by our very own Rapid7 researchers Jake Baines, Hernan Diaz, Andrew Iwamaye, and Dan Kelly. The vulnerability allowed for attackers to leverage the "custom script"...

Conti Group Targets ESXi Hypervisors With its Linux Variant

Conti Group Targets ESXi Hypervisors With its Linux Variant By Marc Elias, Jambul Tologonov and Alexandre Mundo · Apr 20, 2022 Despite the leak of the conversations of the Conti members that happened in March 2022, which we analyzed and published recently, the group seems to continue its operatio...

Conti Group Targets ESXi Hypervisors With its Linux Variant

Conti Group Targets ESXi Hypervisors With its Linux Variant By Marc Elias, Jambul Tologonov and Alexandre Mundo · Apr 20, 2022 Despite the leak of the conversations of the Conti members that happened in March 2022, which we analyzed and published recently, the group seems to continue its operatio...

The vulnerability of VMware Cloud Foundation’s virtualization platform and VMware ESXi hypervisor, related to synchronization errors when using shared resources, allows attackers to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability of the VMware Cloud Foundation virtualization platform and the VMware ESXi hypervisor is related to synchronization errors when using shared resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to increase their privileges...