{"id":5035,"date":"2025-07-28T07:11:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/scattered-spider-hijacks-vmware-esxi-to-deploy-ransomware-on-critical-u-s-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T07:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:11:43","slug":"scattered-spider-hijacks-vmware-esxi-to-deploy-ransomware-on-critical-u-s-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/scattered-spider-hijacks-vmware-esxi-to-deploy-ransomware-on-critical-u-s-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Scattered Spider Hijacks VMware ESXi to Deploy Ransomware on Critical U.S. Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe notorious cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider is targeting VMware ESXi hypervisors in attacks targeting retail, airline, and transportation sectors in North America.<br \/>\n&#8220;The group&#8217;s core tactics have remained consistent and do not rely on software exploits. Instead, they use a proven playbook centered on phone calls to an IT help desk,&#8221; Google&#8217;s Mandiant team said in an extensive\u00a0The notorious cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider is targeting VMware ESXi hypervisors in attacks targeting retail, airline, and transportation sectors in North America.<br \/>\n&#8220;The group&#8217;s core tactics have remained consistent and do not rely on software exploits. Instead, they use a proven playbook centered on phone calls to an IT help desk,&#8221; Google&#8217;s Mandiant team said in an extensive\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe notorious cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider is targeting VMware ESXi hypervisors in attacks targeting retail, airline, and transportation sectors in North America. &#8220;The group&#8217;s core tactics have remained consistent and do not rely on software exploits. Instead, they use a proven playbook centered on phone calls to an IT help desk,&#8221; Google&#8217;s Mandiant&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/scattered-spider-hijacks-vmware-esxi-to-deploy-ransomware-on-critical-u-s-infrastructure\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scattered Spider Hijacks VMware ESXi to Deploy Ransomware on Critical U.S. Infrastructure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}