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hackers broke into 361 companies' VMware servers in under a week — and they're not leaving

A 9.8-severity bug in vCenter's syslog server went from patch to active exploitation in five days, and attackers are planting permanent backdoors, not just stealing data.

Priya Nair · 3h ago · 6 min

Enterprise server hardware running virtualization infrastructure, representing the VMware ESXi and vCenter systems patched against CVE-2026-47876

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Broadcom just patched a VMware bug that lets a VM take over its host. it's not even the worst one

CVE-2026-47876 lets a VM break out and run code on the ESXi host underneath it. Broadcom patched five bugs at once — and the one graded lower is actually getting all the headlines.

Priya Nair · Jul 31 · 8 min