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China-Linked Hackers Exploited VMware ESX Zero-Day to Reduce Audit Trail Visibility

The Hacker News29 October 2026, 06:22 UTCPeople's Republic of China

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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