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VMware releases vSphere Express for virtualization on up to 128 cores

After alienating many long-time small- to medium-sized business (SMB) customers, Broadcom’s VMware is trying to appeal to its smaller customers. Today, the virtualization company announced vSphere Express, a lower-end virtualization offering for organizations that require “cost-effective essential virtualization.” vSphere Express comes after many customers reported that VMware was pushing them to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF),...

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Binance says hackers who stole billions in crypto spent months planning heist

The hackers who stole billions of dollars in cryptocurrency from the Binance exchange spent months working on the theft and used both social engineering and novel malware in the process, the company said Tuesday. The heist, which both the FBI and the TRM Security firm attributed to North Korean actors, initially targeted $6.34 billion in...

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UEFI bootkit infected fully patched Windows machines. Is Microsoft to blame?

In 2023, malware tracked as BlackLotus became the first publicly documented in-the-wild UEFI bootkit capable of bypassing Secure Boot on fully updated Windows 11 systems. With the industry-wide chain-of-trust mechanism subverted, the malware was able to run malicious code before Windows was fully loaded and many security defenses were operational. Microsoft had already patched the...