Various threat groups are increasingly using Babuk’s leaked source code to build ESXi lockers, including a never-before-seen Linux version of the Play ransomware.
Exploit attempts are ramping up against a flaw in Control Web Panel that allows unauthenticated remote code execution.
The FreeBSD Project has released updates to fix a stack buffer overflow in the ping utility.
The new Linux-based ransomware is only the latest to target VMware ESXi servers.
Microsoft researchers found a group of vulnerabilities dubbed Nimbuspwn in a Linux service named networkd-dispatcher that can lead to root privileges.