We were alerted to reports of a Crisis/MORCUT malware that supposedly spreads on VMware virtual machines. Our previous post about Crisis/MORCUT cites that it is a backdoor found to specifically target Mac OSX systems. This time around, the Crisis/MORCUT we have on our hands runs in Windows, and interestingly, mounts virtual disks. It does this…
Read MoreVMWare is one of the more popular virtualization software these days. Its home page describes virtualization as a technology bound to change the IT landscape, as it allows one to “transform hardware into software.” By “virtualizing” hardware resources including the CPU, RAM, etc., multiple virtual machines can share resources without interfering with one other. It…
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