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VMware is a software company known for virtualization products that run multiple operating systems on a single physical computer.
… Over time, the threat actor added more advanced encryption utilities to their toolkit, such as ‘ Mario ,’ which performs a dual-encryption pass with two keys on target files, and ‘ MrAgent ,’ which automates the deployment of encryptors on VMware ESXi hypervisors. …
… On the third and final day of the contest, the competitors hacked Windows 11 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations again, and used a memory corruption bug to exploit VMware ESXi. …
… Threat intelligence specialist Joe Shenouda claims that the gang also deploys an in-memory tool called “shinysp1d3r” to encrypt VMware ESXi targets and disable snapshots. …