A few weeks ago VMware decided to allow the community in general to try out Tanzu.
This by releasing a full deploy’able community edition of Tanzu.

What’s Tanzu Community?
As explained on their landing page;
“VMware Tanzu Community Edition is a full-featured, easy-to-manage Kubernetes platform for learners and users, especially those working in small-scale or preproduction environments”

Remember this is not supported by their product support centre. This edition is community supported.

Also VMware has a All-in Academy for Kubernetes https://kube.academy/.
Be sure to check it out, it does have awesome training material with useful resources, and it’s FREE!

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More ransomware variants are seen on the wild targeting more and more ESXI hosts.

Within the few last months some ransomware variants have been found targeting ESXI servers and their virtual machines.
MalwareHunterTeam recently found a linux version of the REvil ransomware that was targeting ESXI servers by using the ESXCLI commands.

Today was detected a Blackmatter’s ransomware x64 linux variant \ ESXCLI Variant.

Firewall disable via ESXCLI:

esxcli network firewall set --enabled false

Forcibly Stop a Virtual Machine with ESXCLI
(query ..->”WorldID,DisplayName”):

esxcli vm process kill --type=force --world-id <ID>

via: Vitali Kremez https://twitter.com/VK_Intel
https://twitter.com/VK_Intel/status/1423188690126266370

Crowdstrike has a really good article as well on ransomware targeting ESXI server:
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/carbon-spider-sprite-spider-target-esxi-servers-with-ransomware/

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