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End of Year Review: Why Virtualization is Falling into the C-Suite Spotlight

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...

Everything You Need to Know About Hypervisors

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...

How ZeroLock Mitigates BRICKSTORM: Securing VMware Against Advanced Threats

BRICKSTORM is a custom-made malware family recently being used by suspected state-aligned threat actors out of China. Some of the binary files associated with BRICKSTORM appear to have been made specifically to target vCenter servers and VMware virtualized...

DragonForce: A Threat Profile

Aliases DragonForce Malaysia (early hacktivist identity) DragonForce Ransomware Gang DragonLeaks (leak site) DFRansom Get Threat Intel and Security Updates Delivered to Your Inbox. Profiling Threat Actor Type: Initially a hacktivist collective (2021–2022),...

CISOs: Lead the Charge in Virtualization Security in 2026

CISOs have spent the last decade hardening endpoints, identities, and cloud workloads. Yet for many organizations, the hypervisor remains dangerously exposed. Over the past four years, hypervisor-specific ransomware has driven an estimated $1 billion in damage. VMware...

ShinyHunters: A Threat Profile

Aliases ShinyCorp UNC6240 Sometimes referenced as “Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters” in recent collaborations. Get Threat Intel and Security Updates Delivered to Your Inbox. Profiling Threat Actor Type: Financially motivated data-theft and extortion collective (not...