Over 6,700 VMware servers exposed, vulnerable to bugs: Report

San Francisco: Cyber security researchers have discovered that over 6,700 servers of enterprise software major VMware are currently exposed online, are connected to the internet and vulnerable to new bugs by hackers.

The exposed servers can let hackers slip malware into unpatched devices and take over companies’ entire networks, reports ZDNet.

“We’ve detected mass scanning activity targeting vulnerable VMware vCenter servers,” threat intelligence firm Bad Packets said in a tweet late on Wednesday..

A Chinese security researcher has also published a proof-of-concept code on their blog for a vulnerability in VMware servers billed as “CVE-2021-21972”.