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A Chinese hacking group has been exploiting a critical vCenter Server vulnerability as a zero-day since at least late 2021. In the next stage, they exploited the CVE-2023-20867 VMware Tools authentication bypass flaw to escalate privileges, harvest files, and exfiltrate them from guest VMs. While, until now, Mandiant didn't know how the attackers gained privileged access to victims' vCenter servers, the link was made evident in late 2023 by a VMware vmdird service crash minutes before the backdoors' deployment closely matching CVE-2023-34048 exploitation.
VMware has confirmed that a critical vCenter Server remote code execution vulnerability patched in October is now under active exploitation. vCenter Server is a management platform for VMware vSphere environments that helps administrators manage ESX and ESXi servers and virtual machines.
A critical vulnerability affecting VMware Aria Automation and VMware Cloud Foundation can be exploited by attackers to gain access to remote organizations and workflows, VMware has warned.Patches are available and VMware recommends upgrading to VMware Aria Automation 8.16.
Citrix is warning of two zero-day security vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC (formerly Citrix ADC) and NetScaler Gateway (formerly Citrix Gateway) that are being actively exploited in the wild. The...
VMware and Atlassian today disclosed critical vulnerabilities and, while neither appear to have been exploited by miscreants yet, admins should patch now to avoid disappointment. The solution: "Immediately" patch each affected installation by updating to the latest available version, according to the vendor.
A sample of the Qilin ransomware gang's VMware ESXi encryptor has been found and it could be one of the most advanced and customizable Linux encryptors seen to date. Last month, security researcher MalwareHunterTeam found a Linux ELF64 encryptor for the Qilin ransomware gang and shared it with BleepingComputer to analyze.
VMware has fixed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Cloud Director appliance deployments, a bug that was left unpatched for over two weeks since it was disclosed on November 14th. Cloud Director is a VMware platform that enables admins to manage data centers spread across multiple locations as Virtual Data Centers. "On an upgraded version of VMware Cloud Director Appliance 10.5, a malicious actor with network access to the appliance can bypass login restrictions when authenticating on port 22 or port 5480," VMware explains.
VMware is warning of a critical and unpatched security flaw in Cloud Director that could be exploited by a malicious actor to get around authentication protections. Tracked as CVE-2023-34060 (CVSS...
VMware disclosed a critical and unpatched authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Cloud Director appliance deployments. The auth bypass security flaw only affects appliances running VCD Appliance 10.5 that were previously upgraded from an older release.
Cloud computing company VMware rolled out new cloud, AI, edge and data services at VMware Explore Barcelona 2023 on November 7. "We truly believe private AI will become the default architecture for enabling generative AI in the enterprise," said Chris Wolf, vice president of VMware AI Labs, in a pre-briefing for the media on November 2.