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October 29th, 2026 at 6:22 AMChina-Linked Hackers Exploited VMware ESX Zero-Day to Reduce Audit Trail Visibility
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware ESX to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, after CrowdStrike revealed that it had been weaponized by a China-nexus threat actor known as Warp Panda in attacks targeting the U.S. legal sector. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-41709 (CVSS score:
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