Chinese-speaking threat actors used a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance to deliver a VMware ESXi exploit toolkit that seems to have been developed more than a year before the targeted ...

Researchers call it an evolution from earlier versions and not a leap forward, but still advise CSOs to better secure ESXi hosts. The LockBit gang has released a new version of its ransomware with ...

In April 2025, a ransomware attack on Marks & Spencer paralyzed its core systems by encrypting its VMware ESXi hypervisors. The breach halted online sales, disrupted logistics, and left customers in ...

TPS (Transparent Page Sharing) is a proprietary functionality in VMware ESX(i) which essentially does deduplication of memory pages used for virtual machines. Identical memory content across multiple ...

Backing up your VMware ESXi host configuration is critical for disaster recovery. If hardware fails or settings are accidentally changed, a backup allows you to quickly restore the host to its ...

MITRE ATT&CK v17 introduces a major development for defenders: the first-ever dedicated ESXi matrix, highlighting hypervisors as critical points of attack. This blog breaks down what the new matrix ...

The introduction of Spring annotations such as @Bean and @Component, which greatly simplify how to provision and autowire Spring managed beans, triggered a mass exodus from XML-based Spring ...

Remember when your ex dumped you to “take time to reflect” (yes, they actually said it like that…) and then crawled back a few months later? Well, VMware has just pulled the same stunt with its free ...

A free version of the ESXi hypervisor is available, but Broadcom notes the entry-level VMware hypervisor is for non-production use. With little notice or fanfare, Broadcom is offering a free version ...

First, let us talk about VMware Workstation Pro. It has the AutoStart feature that allows the machine to start when the Windows host machine starts. Now, you need to open the VMware Workstation, then ...

In the past few articles on ESXi on a Raspberry Pi (located here, here and here), I discussed ESXi 8 on ARM Fling and how to install it on a Pi 5. While some readers may only be interested in the ...

In 2020, I went on a writing spree, producing several articles about running VMware's bare-metal, type 1 hypervisor, ESXi 7, on a Raspberry Pi 4. In fact, I wrote so many that a publisher from ...