While reviewing the draft, you'll see that most guidelines are worded to be 'script friendly', which is very nice to see. The Hardening Guide can certainly be used as-is for production environments today, but we can expect changes over the next while in response to comments to the posted draft.

A worthy successor to the current VMware Hardening Guide, it contains over 100 guidelines, split into the following sections:Īside from the versioning difference, this newer version of the guide uses a standardized format, and has severity levels for each security recommendation. While rarer than the ones carried out by the RansomExx gang, the attacks show a trend forming in the cybercriminal underground.VMware announces the first draft of the vSphere Hardening Guide, posted for public comment. In addition, Evgueni Erchov, director of incident response and cyber threat intel at Arete IR, tells ZDNet that there's also been cases where ESXi instances have been encrypted during attacks by the Darkside ransomware group. Reports of these attacks have been documented on Reddit, shared on Twitter, presented at a security conference last month, and confirmed in interviews with ZDNet over the past two months. In attacks that have taken place last year, the RansomExx gang has been seen gaining access to a device on a corporate network and abusing this initial entry point to attack local ESXi instances and encrypt their virtual hard disks, used to store data from across virtual machines, causing massive disruptions to companies, as ESXi virtual disks are usually used to centralize data from multiple other systems.

The vulnerabilities allow an attacker on the same network to send malicious SLP requests to an ESXi device and take control of it, even if the attacker has not managed to compromise the VMWare vCenter server to which the ESXi instances usually report to.

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