In Episode 61 of the Cybersecurity Matters Podcast, Austin Gadient—CTO and Co-Founder of Vali Cyber—shares the real-world experiences that led him from competitive hacking at the U.S. Air Force Academy to securing national satellite infrastructure, and ultimately to...
Scattered Spider may not live on Mount Crumpit, but their playbook for stealing Christmas—and your virtual infrastructure—would make even the Grinch proud. Join Joseph Comps, Threat Intelligence Analyst at Vali Cyber, for a deep dive into one of the most destructive...
In this episode of The CyberVault, Austin Gadient, Co-Founder and CTO of Vali Cyber, breaks down why attackers are targeting the hypervisor, how groups like Scattered Spider are reaching deeper into virtualized environments, and why protecting the hypervisor is...
The intricate architecture of hypervisors, while providing remarkable flexibility and scalability for enterprise-level operations, also represents one of the most critical under-protected attack surfaces existing today. This concurrently introduces significant...
As enterprise virtualization scales, hypervisors like VMware ESXi have become critical—and increasingly exploited—attack surfaces. High-profile breaches such as Scattered Spider, the MGM Resorts ($110M) incident, and the Johnson Controls ($51M) breach demonstrate the...
As FIN groups continue to execute fast-impact ransomware campaigns and nation-state APTs favor long-term infrastructure control, hypervisors have become the new high ground. This talk explores a set of stealthy, reliable persistence techniques targeting VMware ESXi,...
