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Questions about VMware ESXi servers exploit - [Thread Split]
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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 98186" data-source="post: 1024223"><p>There files encrypted are not the files located inside a running VM. What gets encrypted are the VMWare file types on the ESXi platform. The virtual machines are not attacked. What is attacked is the ESXi platform upon which they are hosted and run.</p><p></p><p>There is no ESXi security software as it is not running in Windows. To compare to you running VMWare on Windows, what is attacked is Windows host, and then the .</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Vmdk</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Vmx</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Vmxf</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Vmsd</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Vmsn</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Vsqp</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Vmss</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Nvram</li> </ul><p></p><p> files are encrypted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 98186, post: 1024223"] There files encrypted are not the files located inside a running VM. What gets encrypted are the VMWare file types on the ESXi platform. The virtual machines are not attacked. What is attacked is the ESXi platform upon which they are hosted and run. There is no ESXi security software as it is not running in Windows. To compare to you running VMWare on Windows, what is attacked is Windows host, and then the . [LIST] [*]Vmdk [*]Vmx [*]Vmxf [*]Vmsd [*]Vmsn [*]Vsqp [*]Vmss [*]Nvram [/LIST] files are encrypted. [/QUOTE]
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