What Is a CVE? Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Explained

CVE stands for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. In cybersecurity, a CVE is a public catalog entry for a known security flaw in software or hardware, and every entry gets a unique ID that looks like CVE-2021-44228. When someone says they’ve patched a CVE,...

Aurora: A Threat Profile

Aliases  Tracked as Aurora or Aur0ra; no confirmed MITRE group designation or stable alternate operator name at the time of writing. Get Threat Intel and Security Updates Delivered to Your Inbox.   Profiling  Threat Actor Type: Financially motivated ransomware...

ESX Ransomware Protection: Lessons from the Fairlife Attack

Coca-Cola’s Fairlife brand generates roughly $4 billion in annual revenue. In July 2026, production was suspended for 11 days after an Anubis ransomware attack encrypted their Nutanix infrastructure. The pattern appears consistent with most hypervisor attacks:...

Your ESX Environment May Be More Exposed Than You Think

Most organizations running VMware ESX and vCenter have foundational controls in place: patching, restricted administrative access, credential protections, segmentation, and backups. But those controls do not answer the most important operational question: can your...