Play Ransomware’s Linux Variant Attacking VMware ESXi Servers

A new Linux variant of Play ransomware targets VMware ESXi environments, which encrypts virtual machine files and appends the “.PLAY” extension by leveraging obfuscation techniques to bypass detection and is compressed with a Windows variant in a RAR archive.  It utilizes similar tactics as the Windows version based on the presence of common tools associated […]

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