Hackers have found a new method to establish persistence on VMware ESXi hypervisors to control vCenter servers and virtual machines for Windows and Linux while avoiding detection.

VMware released security updates to fix critical sandbox escape vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation products, allowing attackers to escape virtual machines ...

At least two major ransomware gangs are abusing vulnerabilities in the VMWare ESXi product to take over virtual machines deployed in enterprise environments and encrypt their virtual hard drives.

Currently guest-to-guest iperf reaches 4 to 5 gigabits per second, which isn't bad, but it maxes out a single core on the host. Is there any well-known pitfalls in the ESXi guest defaults?