DarkBit Hackers Attacking VMware ESXi Servers to Deploy Ransomware and Encrypt VMDK Files

A newly discovered ransomware campaign has targeted enterprise VMware ESXi environments with military precision, deploying custom-built encryption tools that specifically hunt for virtual machine disk files across VMFS datastores.  Security researchers have successfully reverse-engineered the attack methodology and developed breakthrough decryption techniques, revealing critical vulnerabilities in the threat actors’ cryptographic implementation that enabled complete data […]

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