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Sep 16, 2026
Ned BellavanceHOST
The first time that I started using virtualization and realized that there was a, a PowerShell module for VMware, I was like, "I am just going full bore at that.
Ned BellavanceHOST
I, I don't wanna touch the, the vCenter console if I don't have to."
Paul DeloryGUEST
Like the, one of the best PowerShell implementations too.
Paul DeloryGUEST
But-
James AzarHOST
That's email.
James AzarHOST
Let's get to virtualization because the critical VMware vCenter remote code execution vulnerability that defenders have been watching since earlier this year has now crossed the threshold everyone has feared.
James AzarHOST
CISA is now confirming it is being exploited by ransomware gangs.
James AzarHOST
This is the flaw that gives attackers the ability to execute code on vCenter servers, the central management layer for the VMware virtualization environments.
James AzarHOST
In practical terms, if you compromise vCenter, you can reach every ESXi host and every virtual machine it does manage.
James AzarHOST
That is why ransomware gangs and groups prize it.
James AzarHOST
One entry point, total environment access, maximum leverage for extortion.
James AzarHOST
And ransomware operators have already demonstrated the ability to encrypt ESXi data stores wholesale, taking entire data centers offline in just minutes.
Ned BellavanceHOST
The first time that I started using virtualization and realized that there was a PowerShell module for VMware, I was like, I am just going full bore at that.
Ned BellavanceHOST
I don't want to touch the vCenter console if I don't have to.
Paul DeloryGUEST
Like one of the best PowerShell implementations too.
Ned BellavanceHOST
Yeah, for sure.
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This is a daily cyber.news update, brought to you by baremetalcyber.com. For Wednesday, September sixteenth, twenty twenty-six.
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Enterprise virtualization environments now have a confirmed ransomware path through VMware vCenter.
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CISA says ransomware gangs have joined ongoing attacks against a critical directory traversal issue that Broadcom patched on July twenty-ninth.
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An unauthenticated attacker can abuse the vCenter syslog server to execute arbitrary code.
Nick KuhnHOST
He's angry.
Nick KuhnHOST
And it's going down to my vCenter, which I think I need to refresh those credentials.
Nick KuhnHOST
Let me refresh that.
Nick KuhnHOST
Very cute.
Nick KuhnHOST
It can do, you know, like health checks, audits, that type of thing.
Nick KuhnHOST
Now, you know, it's one of the pre-canned questions was how do I register my, I think, vCenter? I
Morgan FineGUEST
think it was.
Morgan FineGUEST
I think so.
Ned BellavanceHOST
The first time that I started using virtualization and realized that there was a PowerShell module for VMware, I was like, I am just going full bore at that.
Ned BellavanceHOST
I don't want to touch the vCenter console if I don't have to.
Paul DeLoreyGUEST
Like one of the best PowerShell implementations too.
Ned BellavanceHOST
Yeah, for sure.
Tony FosterPANELIST
the full stack VCM.
Eric NelsonHOST
But if you want to get yourself trained and spend a little time with the, with the products, um, You know, you can do that today for free or you can spend $800 and, you know, have a fully licensed vCenter, you know, with, you know,
Tony FosterPANELIST
eight virtual CPUs is limited or something like that.
Tony FosterPANELIST
Yeah, I don't
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Tony FosterPANELIST
72% of our certified professionals.
Tony FosterPANELIST
Right.
Drew NielsenGUEST
And that, you know, VCP really covered, you know, vCenter or vSphere and Naked vCenter.
Drew NielsenGUEST
And that was enough to get you through, you know, an admin VCP exam.
Carlos Campos TorresGUEST
Most of our focus on UCS, especially for operating system provisioning, but anything about the operating system can be applied to anything.
Carlos Campos TorresGUEST
If you have HP servers, Dell, Supermicro, you can install anything on top of those, either because you built the automation yourself for those or because you're leveraging the vCenter or VM as a service or container as a service catalog items that they don't really care about what is the infrastructure underneath.
Carlos Campos TorresGUEST
I think that's something that is very, very critical about this, Danny, and I'm glad you brought it up.
Carlos Campos TorresGUEST
We're not only focusing on Cisco as our single vendor of choice.
Ned BellavanceHOST
They removed perpetual licensing, deprecated a bunch of products, and answered basically any renewal request with a proposal that was two to eight times the cost.
Ned BellavanceHOST
Driving much of that cost was the removal of existing SKUs in favor of the CloudFormation SKU, a package that includes vSphere, vCenter, NSX, vSan, and whatever they renamed vRealize to this week, and a whole bunch more.
Ned BellavanceHOST
Hock Tan, CEO of Broadcom, was pretty clear that he intended to focus on VMware's biggest customers, those who would probably want VCF to the exclusion of all others.
Ned BellavanceHOST
If you wanted to stay on the VMware train, you had to pay the massively increased cost.
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