Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, May 19th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today,

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I wanted to put this at the top of the show to get out the word.

The CISA is ordering U federal civilian agencies to patch or remove

VMware products affected by a critical RCE vulnerability that hackers are

actively exploiting quoting Arstectica.

Malicious hackers, some believed to be state-backed, are actively exploiting two unrelated

vulnerabilities, both with severity ratings of 9.8 out of a possible 10, in hopes

of infecting sensitive enterprise networks with Backdoors, Botnet software, and other forms of

malware.

The ongoing attacks target unpatched versions of multiple product lines

from VMware and of big IP software from F5 security researchers said.

Both vulnerabilities give attackers the ability to remotely execute

malicious code or commands that run with unfettered root system privileges.

The largely uncoordinated exploits appear to be malicious as opposed to benign

scans that attempt to identify vulnerable servers and quantify their number.

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