{"id":148648,"date":"2022-10-21T18:22:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T23:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/multiple-campaigns-exploit-vmware-vulnerability-to-deploy-crypto-miners-and-ransomware"},"modified":"2022-10-21T18:22:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T23:22:57","slug":"multiple-campaigns-exploit-vmware-vulnerability-to-deploy-crypto-miners-and-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/multiple-campaigns-exploit-vmware-vulnerability-to-deploy-crypto-miners-and-ransomware","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Campaigns Exploit VMware Vulnerability to Deploy Crypto Miners and Ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/multiple-campaigns-exploit-vmware-vulnerability-to-deploy-crypto-miners-and-ransomware.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A now-patched vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE Access has been observed being exploited to deliver both cryptocurrency miners and ransomware on affected machines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attacker intends to utilize a victim\u2019s resources as much as possible, not only to install RAR1Ransom for extortion, but also to spread GuardMiner to collect cryptocurrency,\u201d Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara Lin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortinet.com\/blog\/threat-research\/multiple-malware-campaigns-target-vmware-vulnerability\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a Thursday report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A now-patched vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE Access has been observed being exploited to deliver both cryptocurrency miners and ransomware on affected machines. \u201cThe attacker intends to utilize a victim\u2019s resources as much as possible, not only to install RAR1Ransom for extortion, but also to spread GuardMiner to collect cryptocurrency,\u201d Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}