On Monday, July 29, Microsoft published an extensive threat intelligence blog on observed exploitation of CVE-2024-37085, an Active Directory integration authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Broadcom VMware ESXi hypervisors.
The vulnerability, according to Redmond, was identified in zero-day attacks and has evidently been used by at least half a dozen ransomware operations to obtain full administrative permissions on domain-joined ESXi hypervisors (which, in turn, enables attackers to encrypt downstream file systems).
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Source: Rapid7
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