CISA Alert AA23-039A – ESXiArgs ransomware virtual machine recovery guidance. [CISA Cybersecurity Alerts]
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🗓️ 9 February 2023
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the CyberWire Network, powered by N2K. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a CISA Cybersecurity Alert. |
| 0:14.0 | ID number Alpha Alpha 2-3-TAC 0-39 Alpha. |
| 0:21.0 | Original release date, February 8th, 2023. |
| 0:25.0 | CISA and the FBI are releasing this alert in response to the ongoing ransomware |
| 0:32.2 | campaign known as ESI ARGs. |
| 0:35.9 | Malicious actors are exploiting known vulnerabilities in VMware ESI servers that are likely running |
| 0:41.6 | unpatched and out-of-service or out-of-date versions of |
| 0:44.8 | VMware ES-X-I software to gain access and deploy ransomware. The ESXI ARGs |
| 0:51.0 | ransomware encrypts configuration files on ESI servers potentially rendering virtual machines |
| 0:56.9 | unusable. |
| 0:58.8 | CISA has released an ESI ARGs recovery script available for download on GitHub. |
| 1:03.6 | The verified link to this script can be found in the show notes. |
| 1:06.7 | Organizations that have fallen victim to ESXI Rgs ransomware can use this script to attempt |
| 1:11.6 | to recover their files. |
| 1:13.0 | The full alert documentation linked in the show notes provides additional guidance on how to use the script. |
| 1:18.0 | Malicious actors have compromised over 3,800 servers globally. |
| 1:24.0 | CISA and FBI encourage all organizations managing |
| 1:27.0 | VMware ESI servers to, update servers to the latest version of |
| 1:32.0 | VMware ESI software, |
| 1:34.0 | harden ESI hypervisors by disabling the service location protocol service, |
| 1:39.0 | and ensure the ESXI hypervisor is not exposed to the public internet. |
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