A new strain of Python-based malware has been used in a "sniper" campaign to achieve encryption on a corporate system in less than three hours. The attack, one of the fastest recorded by Sophos ...

I believe that a snapshot of a vmware virtual machine on esxi 5.x (and probably 4.x as well) can only grow as big as the original virtual machine, whereas my colleagues think they can grow bigger.

Operators of an unknown ransomware gang are using a Python script to encrypt virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi servers. While the Python programming language is not commonly used in ransomware ...