BleepingComputer reports that VMware ESXi servers have been subjected to attacks involving a Linux version of the Abyss Locker ransomware, making the ransomware operation, which only emerged in March, to be the latest to target VMware ESXi with a Linux encryptor, following the Akira, Black Basta, LockBit, Royal, REvil, and Hive ransomware groups, among others. Further analysis of Abyss Locker’s Linux ELF encryptor, discovered by MalwareHunterTeam, revealed its usage of the “esxcli”

Source: SC Magazine