Aliases Fire Ant China‑nexus infrastructure espionage actor (media shorthand) UNC3886‑overlap (tooling/TTP overlap; not a formal attribution) Listed by MITRE as an alias for Mustang Panda (G0129) Profiling Threat Actor Type: Suspected state aligned...
As we head into 2026, one thing has become clear in the last year: attackers are changing tactics, and our defenses need to evolve with them. Virtualization infrastructure, the hypervisor layer in particular, has emerged as a high-impact target. And while this shift...
The December 2025 CISA/NSA/Cyber Centre analysis of BRICKSTORM represents one of the clearest signals yet that hypervisors have become priority targets for state-backed cyber operations. The report attributes BRICKSTORM to PRC state-sponsored actors and documents a...
As organizations continue to adopt VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9, security remains a top priority. Hypervisors are an increasingly critical layer which—if compromised—can give attackers complete control over the environment. VCF 9 has introduced several advanced...
When attackers reach the virtualization layer, they gain control of the systems that run the entire business. This unfortunate scenario has occurred exponentially in recent years as threat actors discover that the hypervisor remains the least monitored, least...
Virtualization changed everything about how modern computing works, but most people have no idea what’s happening under the hood. Before virtualization, companies had to buy a separate physical machine for every single application they ran. Rooms of hardware, insane...
