{"id":193319,"date":"2024-07-22T20:22:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T01:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/new-linux-variant-of-play-ransomware-targeting-vmware-esxi-systems"},"modified":"2024-07-22T20:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T01:22:38","slug":"new-linux-variant-of-play-ransomware-targeting-vmware-esxi-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/new-linux-variant-of-play-ransomware-targeting-vmware-esxi-systems","title":{"rendered":"New Linux Variant of Play Ransomware Targeting VMware ESXi Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-linux-variant-of-play-ransomware-targeting-vmware-esxi-systems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Play ransomware\u2019s new Linux variant targets VMWare ESXi, expanding its reach. US leads in victims, with manufacturing and services most affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play ransomware\u2019s new Linux variant targets VMWare ESXi, expanding its reach. US leads in victims, with manufacturing and services most affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193319","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=193319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}