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"A Chinese Hacking Crew Turned a VMware Bug Into a Ransomware Pipeline"

Patch VMware vCenter before you do anything else this week. Security researchers have attributed active exploitation of CVE-2026-59310, a severe directory traversal vulnerability in vCenter Server, to a suspected China-nexus advanced persistent threat group. The attacks were first flagged on Monday, 17 August 2026, and the payload at the end of the chain is a Babuk-derived ransomware strain.

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