The Python script uses the vim-cmd command functions of the ESXi Shell to produce a list of the names of all VMs installed on the server, then shuts them all down, he said.

Operators of an unknown ransomware gang are using a Python script to encrypt virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi servers.

A previously undocumented Python backdoor targeting VMware ESXi servers has been spotted, enabling hackers to execute commands remotely on a compromised system.

Attackers used a script written in Python during a recent ransomware attack which took just three hours, encrypting all the virtual disks on the target's virtual machine hypervisor. Andrew ...

The report, “Python Ransomware Script Targets ESXi Server for Encryption,” details a sniper-like operation that took less than three hours to progress from breach to encryption.

The script used to hijack the company's VM setup was only 6kb in length but contained variables including different sets of encryption keys, email addresses, and options for customizing the suffix ...

Just a week after the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its recovery script against ransomware targeting VMWare ESXi virtual machines, a modified version of the ...

Threat researchers at Sophos have identified a new strain of unusually fast-acting ransomware written in the Python programming language that has targeted VMware ESXi servers and virtual machines ...

Researchers at Sophos Group plc have released details of new ransomware written in Python that attackers used to compromise and encrypt virtual machines hosted on an ESXi hypervisor.