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The Resurrection of CVE-2021-21974: The Ransomware Attack on VMware ESXI Hypervisors that Doesn’t Seem to Go Away

CATO Networks

The ransomware attack that exploits a vulnerability in VMware ESXi hypervisors, has reportedly hit over 500 machines this past weekend. Shodan data indicates that many servers were initially hosted in the OVHcloud, but the blast radius appears to be constantly expanding. Why is CVE-2021-21974 a concern? We have for years.

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The Meltdown-Spectre Exploits: Lock-down your Servers, Update Cloud Instances

CATO Networks

The much publicized critical CPU vulnerabilities published last week by Googles Project Zero and its partners, will have their greatest impact on virtual hosts or those servers where threat actors can gain physical access. Most cloud providers have already patched the underlying hypervisors.

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Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update: Ransomware gang uses SSH tunnels for stealthy VMware ESXi [Â…]

4sysops

Ransomware gang uses SSH tunnels for stealthy VMware ESXi access Ransomware groups are increasingly targeting VMware ESXi hypervisors by utilizing SSH tunneling to remain hidden while maintaining access.

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Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update: Microsoft fixes under-attack privilege-escalation holes in [Â…]

4sysops

Microsoft fixes under-attack privilege-escalation holes in Hyper-V Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday of 2025 includes critical updates addressing three privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Hyper-V hypervisor, identified as CVE-2025-21333, CVE-2025-21334, and CVE-2025-21335. They are rated 7.8

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VMware clients: Strategic migration to Nutanix & Cisco

The Network DNA

VMware clients: Strategic migration to Nutanix & Cisco Software-defined Nutanix needs servers to run its HCI software and AHV hypervisor. Partner Cisco has thousands of UCS servers installed, including blades and rack shelves. Nutanix is partnering with Cisco to certify Cisco's UCS blade servers.

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The Software Revolution’s Next Stop: The Enterprise Network

CATO Networks

Think of an operating system and a server. This problem was addressed by Virtualization and the Hypervisor. And if the server software failed, the hardware could still run other virtual server instances. In both cases the ability to adapt is constrained.

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Veeam Backup & Replication

Akins IT

Human error, for example, is the number one cause of service interruption, with server failure, storage failure, and power failure following it. Veeam works by requesting a snapshot from your hypervisor, processing and deduplicating that data, and removing the snapshot from your hypervisor.