Network World

Crisis malware infects VMware virtual machines, researchers say

The Windows version of Crisis, a piece of malware discovered in July, is capable of infecting VMware virtual machine images, Windows Mobile devices and removable USB drives, according to researchers ...
Hackaday

Making A Virtual Machine Look Like Real Hardware To Malware

Running suspicious software in a virtual machine seems like a basic precaution to figure out whether said software contains naughty code. Unfortunately it’s generally rather easy to detect whether or ...
InfoWorld

Malware no longer avoiding virtual machines

Symantec finds most malware these days doesn't quit on VMs, which used to be a tactic to avoid security checks Many malicious software programs used to make a quick exit on virtual machines, a tactic ...
Redmond Magazine

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Adds Agentless Virtual Machine Malware Scanning

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it has added agentless malware scanning for servers hosting virtual machines. The new agentless malware scanning capability is available to organizations that have ...
Bleeping Computer

Russian hackers abuse Hyper-V to hide malware in Linux VMs

The Russian hacker group Curly COMrades is abusing Microsoft Hyper-V in Windows to bypass endpoint detection and response solutions by creating a hidden Alpine Linux-based virtual machine to run ...
Hosted on MSN

Russian hackers hit Windows machines via Linux VMs with new custom malware

Curly COMrades deployed Alpine Linux VMs on Windows hosts to hide reverse-shell malware activity VM traffic tunneled via host IP, bypassing traditional EDR and masking outbound communications Targets ...
Computerworld

Malware no longer avoids virtual machines

Many malicious software programs used to make a quick exit on virtual machines, a tactic designed to avoid a security check. But that isn’t the case anymore, according Symantec research. As companies ...