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Compare Nutanix AHV vs. VMware ESXi in the hypervisor battle

By Stuart Burns 08 Apr 2024

Though Nutanix AHV and VMware ESXi offer similar feature sets, admins' decisions will depend on several factors, such as virtualization needs and workload size. Read More

CrowdStrike warns of rise in VMware ESXi hypervisor attacks

By Arielle Waldman 15 May 2023

As enterprise adoption of virtualization technology increases, CrowdStrike has observed a rise in ransomware attacks on servers running VMware's ESXi bare-metal hypervisors. Read More

Mandiant: New VMware ESXi zero-day used by Chinese APT

By Alexander Culafi 13 Jun 2023

VMware said the ESXi flaw was 'low severity' despite being under active exploitation because it requires the attacker to already have gained root access on the target's system. Read More

VMware ESXi users must decide: Should I stay or should I go?

By Ed Scannell 20 Oct 2022

With many VMware ESXi servers reaching end of life, users must decide to extend existing support agreements, upgrade to version 7 or -- an unlikely scenario -- switch vendors. Read More

New ESXi ransomware strain spreads, foils decryption tools

By Arielle Waldman 10 Feb 2023

Since the onset of the widespread attacks last week, the ESXiArgs ransomware strain appears to have undergone updates that make it harder for enterprises to recover data. Read More

Widespread ransomware campaign targets VMware ESXi servers

By Arielle Waldman 06 Feb 2023

The attacks exploited a two-year-old heap overflow vulnerability in VMware ESXi. Many questions remain about the scope of the campaign and the threat actor behind it. Read More

Mandiant spots new malware targeting VMware ESXi hypervisors

By Rob Wright 29 Sep 2022

Mandiant researchers said the backdoors were installed with a novel technique that used malicious vSphere Installation Bundles, though it's unclear how initial access was achieved. Read More

Get started with ESXi Fling on Arm architecture

By Vladan Seget 26 Jan 2022

Arm architecture brings benefits of energy efficiency as well as edge use cases. Read up on how to get the right ISO files and hardware to properly run ESXi Fling. Read More

VMware ESXi 7 users vulnerable to hypervisor takeover bug

By Shaun Nichols 10 Jan 2022

A recent security update addressed a hypervisor takeover vulnerability in several VMware products, but the patch omitted one key server platform in ESXi 7. Read More

Ransomware operator turns their fire on two-year-old VMware bug

By Alex Scroxton 06 Feb 2023

A vulnerability in VMware ESXi servers that users should have patched in 2021 is now being exploited to spread ransomware Read More