Pwn2Own hackers use $150,000 exploit on VMware ESXi. The elite hackers attending Pwn2Own in Berlin have made hacking history by successfully deploying a zero-day exploit against VMware ESXi. Having ...

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 ...

VMware has resumed offering a free hypervisor. News of the offering emerged in a throwaway line in the Release Notes for version 8.0 Update 3e of the Broadcom business unit's ESXi hypervisor. Just ...

Following Broadcom changes to VMware software licensing, tech analyst firm DCIG digs into VMware vSphere alternative solutions from Hive, Microsoft, Nutanix, Scale and VergeIO. There are many ...

Scans show that tens of thousands of VMware ESXi instances are affected by CVE-2025-22224 and other vulnerabilities disclosed recently as zero-days. Scans show that tens of thousands of VMware ESXi ...

Broadcom has patched three vulnerabilities in the VMware ESXi hypervisor and related products, with Microsoft reporting the flaws are being actively exploited to take control of host systems. Broadcom ...

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 ...

In 2024, ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi servers reached alarming levels, with the average ransom demand skyrocketing to $5 million. With approximately 8,000 ESXi hosts exposed directly to ...

VMware ESX uses datastores, or virtual machine file system volumes, to hold disk images and snapshots associated with a virtual machine in your business. These datastores are contained on logical unit ...

A recently patched security flaw impacting VMware ESXi hypervisors has been actively exploited by "several" ransomware groups to gain elevated permissions and deploy file-encrypting malware. The ...

Microsoft is urging users of VMware’s ESXi hypervisor to take immediate action to ward off ongoing attacks by ransomware groups that give them full administrative control of the servers the product ...