Per Twitter @Unit42_Intel a LockBit 3.0 variant using ESXi Locker version 1.2 continues targeting ESXi hash: 0f7c10dfa562adf15f1f6078ecaee788.
Communication services provider Twilio this week disclosed that it experienced another "brief security incident" in June 2022 perpetrated by the same threat actor behind the August hack that resulted in unauthorized access of customer information.
In part one, we covered attackers’ usage of malicious vSphere Installation Bundles (“VIBs”) to install multiple backdoors across ESXi hypervisors, focusing on the malware present within the VIB payloads. In
On Thursday September 29th, Mandiant published information on malware they discovered in the wild that leverages unsigned VIBs to install backdoors on a compromised ESXi host.
This malware ecosystem was initially detected during an intrusion investigation when Mandiant identified attacker commands sourced from the legitimate VMware Tools process, vmtoolsd.exe, on a Windows virtual machine hosted on a VMware ESXi hypervisor.
There has been a lot of great technical content from both VMware and the broader community since the announcement of vSphere 8, which happened a few weeks ago.
A .NET-based evasive crypter named DarkTortilla has been used by threat actors to distribute ..
