Microsoft Threat Intelligence – a vulnerability used by various ransomware operators to get full administrative access to domain joined ESXi hypervisors and encrypt the virtual machines running on them the vulnerability involves creating a group called ‚ESX Admins‘ in Active Directory and adding an attacker controlled user account to this group this manipulation of the Active Directory group takes advantage of a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2024-37085) in ESXi hypervisors that grants the added user full administrative access to the ESXi hypervisor

Microsoft Threat Intelligence – Ransomware operators exploit ESXi hypervisor vulnerability for mass encryption

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