{"id":218959,"date":"2025-07-29T08:28:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/scattered-spider-hijacks-vmware-esxi-to-deploy-ransomware-on-critical-u-s-infrastructure"},"modified":"2025-07-29T08:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:28:37","slug":"scattered-spider-hijacks-vmware-esxi-to-deploy-ransomware-on-critical-u-s-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/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><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scattered-spider-hijacks-vmware-esxi-to-deploy-ransomware-on-critical-u-s-infrastructure.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scattered Spider targets VMware ESXi in fast, stealthy ransomware attacks across U.S. retail and airline sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scattered Spider targets VMware ESXi in fast, stealthy ransomware attacks across U.S. retail and airline sectors.<\/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-218959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218959","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=218959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}