How vSphere Became a Target for Adversaries
About this episode
The episode discusses the increasing targeting of VMware vSphere by threat actors and strategies for organizations to enhance their detection capabilities.
Stuart Carrera (Senior Consultant, Mandiant Consulting) joins host Luke McNamara to discuss how threat actors are increasingly targeting the VMware vSphere estate, and leveraging in this environment to conduct extortion and data theft. Stuart details why this has become an attractive target, and ways organizations can better engineer detections to respond to this activity. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/defending-vsphere-from-unc3944 https://cloud.google.com/bl...
People in this episode
Host: Luke McNamara
Guest: Stuart Carrera
Topics covered
- vSphere
- cybersecurity
- data theft
- extortion
- threat actors
Keywords
- vSphere
- VMware
- cyber threats
- data security
- extortion
- threat detection
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Mandiant, VMware, Google Cloud
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