Suspected China-Nexus Actor Exploits VMware vCenter Flaw, Deploys Babuk-Derived Ransomware

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Metadaten

  • Original (extern): Link oeffnen
  • Veroeffentlicht: 2026-08-17 07:36 UTC
  • Importiert: 2026-08-22 14:37 UTC
  • CVSS: 9.8
  • Quelle-ID: thn_global
  • uid_hash: 195b51e89c248ee7841ecbc4dd55f4c09d1582ce06343156577e2dc0190c541e

Inhalt

Cybersecurity researchers have attributed the exploitation of a newly patched security flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter to a suspected China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT).

The attacks involve the exploitation of CVE-2026-59310 (CVSS score: 9.8), a severe directory-traversal vulnerability in the VMware vCenter server that could be weaponized by a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code

Verknuepfte CVEs

CVE-ID Severity (Quelle) CVSS (Quelle) Severity (CVE.org) CVSS (CVE.org) EPSS EPSS-Pctl Veroeffentlicht (CVE.org)

CVE-2026-59310

CRITICAL

9.8

CRITICAL

9.8

2026-07-30

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