Hackaday

Making A Virtual Machine Look Like Real Hardware To Malware

Running suspicious software in a virtual machine seems like a basic precaution to figure out whether said software contains ...
InfoWorld

Crisis malware infects VMware virtual machines, researchers say

The Windows version of Crisis, a piece of malware discovered in July, is capable of infecting VMware virtual machine images, Windows Mobile devices, and removable USB drives, according to researchers ...
Digital Trends

Malware can now detect virtual machines, and then go dark like a Cold War spy

One of the more effective ways to counter a malware infection is to make sure that it infects something that can’t have much of an influence on the rest of the system, like a sandboxed virtual machine ...
Threat Post

VM Escape Earns Hackers $105K at Pwn2Own

Hackers pulled off a VM escape and took down Adobe Flash, Microsoft Windows and Edge, Apple Safari and macOS, and Mozilla Firefox at Pwn2Own 2017. Hackers managed to take down Microsoft Edge and ...
Bleeping Computer

New malware backdoors VMware ESXi servers to hijack virtual machines

Hackers have found a new method to establish persistence on VMware ESXi hypervisors to control vCenter servers and virtual machines for Windows and Linux while avoiding detection. With the help of ...
Bleeping Computer

First look: Microsoft's Project Freta detects Linux malware for free

Microsoft Research has announced a cloud-based malware detection service called Project Freta to detect rootkits, cryptominers, and previously undetected malware strains lurking in your Linux cloud VM ...
PC World

VMware patches critical virtual machine escape flaws

VMware has released critical security patches for vulnerabilities demonstrated during the recent Pwn2Own hacking contest that could be exploited to escape from the isolation of virtual machines. The ...