VMware ESXi zero-days likely exploited a year before disclosure

Chinese-speaking threat actors used a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance to deliver a VMware ESXi exploit toolkit that seems to have been developed more than a year before the targeted ...
SecurityWeek

Exploit for VMware Zero-Day Flaws Likely Built a Year Before Public Disclosure

Analysis of a recent attack targeting VMware ESXi vulnerabilities from March 2025 revealed an exploit developed a year before ...
The Hacker News

China-Linked Hackers Exploit VMware ESXi Zero-Days to Escape Virtual Machines

Researchers found Chinese-linked attackers abused SonicWall VPN access and VMware ESXi zero-day flaws to escape VMs and gain ...
The Register on MSN

China-linked cybercrims abused VMware ESXi zero-days a year before disclosure

Huntress analysis suggests VM escape bugs were already weaponized in the wild Chinese-linked cybercriminals were sitting on a ...
Yahoo Finance

37K+ VMware ESXi instances vulnerable to critical zero-day

This story was originally published on Cybersecurity Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Cybersecurity Dive newsletter. Broadcom on Tuesday disclosed three zero-day ...
Forbes

VMware Hacked As $150,000 Zero-Day Exploit Dropped

Pwn2Own hackers use $150,000 exploit on VMware ESXi. The elite hackers attending Pwn2Own in Berlin have made hacking history by successfully deploying a zero-day exploit against VMware ESXi. Having ...
Bleeping Computer

New ‘Cheers’ Linux ransomware targets VMware ESXi servers

A new ransomware named ‘Cheers’ has appeared in the cybercrime space and has started its operations by targeting vulnerable VMware ESXi servers. VMware ESXi is a virtualization platform commonly used ...