Published on: 2025-07-03 04:53:26
U.S. technology giant Broadcom is warning that a trio of VMware vulnerabilities are being actively exploited by malicious hackers to compromise the networks of its corporate customers. The three vulnerabilities — collectively dubbed “ESXicape” by one security researcher — affect VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion, which are widely-used software hypervisor products that allow multiple virtual machines to be managed on a single server. Hypervisors are commonly used to reduce the need to take up
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 10:33:36
Three critical vulnerabilities in multiple virtual-machine products from VMware can give hackers unusually broad access to some of the most sensitive environments inside multiple customers’ networks, the company and outside researchers warned Tuesday. The class of attack made possible by exploiting the vulnerabilities is known under several names, including hyperjacking, hypervisor attack, or virtual machine escape. Virtual machines often run inside hosting environments to prevent one customer
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 11:06:17
Welcome to part 2 of the Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor blog series. In this part I’ll cover how I found and exploited bugs in the Xbox 360 hypervisor to get full code execution and create the “Bad Update” exploit. If you haven’t already, I highly recommend you read (or at least skim through) part 1 as this post will reference a lot of the material discussed there. As I mentioned in part 1, I consider the Xbox 360 hypervisor to be one of the most secure pieces of code Microsoft has ever writte
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