New Python ransomware targets virtual machines, ESXi hypervisors to encrypt disks By targeting ESXi, encryption was achieved in less than three hours on a corporate network.

Operators of an unknown ransomware gang are using a Python script to encrypt virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi servers. While the Python programming language is not commonly used in ...

[Clifford Wolf] wrote in to let us know about a project he recently completed called EmbedVM. It’s a virtual machine for AVR microcontrollers. The package has a relatively small overhead, tak… ...